Primary Consolidation - Pore Pressure Dissipation - Delayed Settlements

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Explores settlement of shallow foundations, including types, causes, differential settlements, consolidation phenomena, and estimation methods.

Explores drained and undrained soil conditions, laboratory tests, and the significance of effective stress and pore pressure.

Explores soil physical properties, types, and classifications, emphasizing porosity and drainage.

Explores the design and stability of various types of retaining walls in geotechnical engineering.

Explores the critical state concept in geomechanics, covering stress paths, shear strength, and soil behavior under different stress conditions.

Explores static loading tests, pile foundations, failure mechanisms, and bearing capacity verification in geotechnical works.

Explores the properties of solid, liquid, and gaseous phases in soil, including water behavior and key concepts like capillarity and surface tension.

Explores the critical state concept in geomechanics, focusing on unsaturated soils and Terzaghi's effective stress validity.

Introduces states of stress, effective stress principles, consolidation equations, and compressibility of fluids and solids.