Category: Academic Issues

Important links:

• Soil Mechanics (the complete course)
• Groundwater I (slide presentation)
• Textbook References: Verruijt Chapters 7-12 (print,) 6-11 (online); Tsytovich 2.2
• Variation in Viscosity, which has some explanation of the units of viscosity and how it’s applied to the coefficient of permeability
• Computing Pore Water Pressure and Effective Stress in Upward (and Downward) Flow in Soil
• When the Pathfinder Gets Lost: some students like to “follow the lead” of someone else to get the course work done. That can have negative results other than those described in the syllabus, just like this example

Important links:

• Soil Mechanics (the complete course)
• Effective Stress (slide presentation)
• Textbook References: Verruijt Chapters 5 and 6 (print,) 4 and 5 (online); SFH 2.2, 2.3, 5.3; Tsytovich 3.2 (part)
• Effective Stress Example Problem Spreadsheet
• Who’s This Idiot? That’s Me!  It’s easy to get trapped in the system.

Important links:

• Soil Mechanics (the complete course)
• Soil Composition (slide presentation)
• Textbook References: Verruijt Chapter 3 (print and online); SFH 2.1, 5.3; Tsytovich 1.4
• Those Pesky Kilogram-Force Units — vulcanhammer.info (a way to sort out things with the MKS units)
• Weight and Volume Relationships for Soils, from NAVFAC DM 7
• In Search of the Lost Movado.  Bar hopping has consequences.

Important links:

• Soil Mechanics (the complete course)
• Site Exploration and Classification (slide presentation)
• Textbook references: Verruijt Chapter 3 (print), 47 (online); SFH Chapter 3, 4.7
• Foundation Design and Analysis: Boring Logs and Their Interpretation
• An Introduction to Drilling and Sampling in Geotechnical Practice — the “Boring Video”. It’s included with the video above, this links to it by itself.
• And while we’re on the subject of boring…My Thoughts on Sleeping in Class