Soil Mechanics: Elastic Solutions to Soil Deflections and Stresses

Important links:

• Soil Mechanics (the complete course)
• Elastic Solutions to Soil Deflections and Stresses (slide presentation)
• Supplementary Instructional Material:
  • Analytical Boussinesq Solutions for Strip, Square and Rectangular Loads
  • Going Around in Circles for Rigid and Flexible Foundations
  • Superposition, and Using Point Loads in Place of Distributed Ones
  • The Equivalent Thickness Method for Estimating Elastic Settlements
• Boussinesq Solution to Verruijt Newmark Problem (spreadsheet)
• The Two Promises I Made to Myself (thoughts on career development)