CE6405 Soil Mechanics
Anna University Sixth Semester ( 2nd year ) Question Papers Collection (Regulation 2013)
Semester : 04
Department : Civil
Year : Second Year (II Year)
Regulation : 2013
Subject Code / Name : CE6405 Soil Mechanics
Content : Question Banks, Books, Lecture Notes, Important Part A 2 Marks Questions and Important Part B 16 Mark Questions
CE6405 SOIL MECHANICS
UNIT I SOIL CLASSIFICATION AND COMPACTION
Nature of soil – phase relationships – Soil description and classification for engineering purposes, their significance – Index properties of soils - BIS Classification system – Soil compaction – Theory, comparison of laboratory and field compaction methods – Factors influencing compaction behaviour of soils.
UNIT II SOIL WATER AND WATER FLOW
Soil water – static pressure in water - Effective stress concepts in soils – capillary stress – Permeability measurement in the laboratory and field pumping in pumping out tests – factors influencing permeability of soils – Seepage – introduction to flow nets – Simple problems. (sheet pile and weir).
UNIT III STRESS DISTRIBUTION AND SETTLEMENT
Stress distribution - soil media – Boussinesq theory - Use of Newmarks influence chart – Components of settlement –– immediate and consolidation settlement – Terzaghi‟s onedimensional consolidation theory – computation of rate of settlement. - √t and log t methods– e-log p relationship - Factors influencing compression behaviour of soils.
UNIT IV SHEAR STRENGTH
Shear strength of cohesive and cohesionless soils – Mohr – Coulomb failure theory – Measurement of shear strength, direct shear – Triaxial compression, UCC and Vane shear tests – Pore pressure parameters – cyclic mobility – Liquefaction.
UNIT V SLOPE STABILITY
Slope failure mechanisms – Types - infinite slopes – finite slopes – Total stress analysis for saturated clay – Fellenius method - Friction circle method – Use of stability number - slope protection measures.
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Part A - 2 Marks |
CE6405 Soil Mechanics unit wise 2 marks with Answers
- UNIT 1 to UNIT 5 - 2MARKS – ( its in 16marks see below )
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