Subject Code: CE4L044	Subject Name: Soil Engineering	L-T-P: 3-0-0	Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s): None
Shear strength of cohesionless and cohesive soils, physico-chemical aspects, experimental determination of shear strength, failure theories, Yield criteria, influence on failure conditions of inter-mediate principal stress, history, drainage, rate of stress applications etc.; Plastic equilibrium in soils, Mohr diagram, active and passive states, theories of earth pressure on retaining walls, effect of wall friction on the shape of sliding surface, theories of arching, bearing capacity, concepts of general and local shear failure, critical height of vertical banks, various methods of computation of slope stability, earth pressure on timbering of cuts and on free and anchored bulkheads.
Text/Reference Books: Lambe T.W. and Whitman R.V.Soil Mechanics in SI Version, Wiley, New Delhi. Scott R.F.Principles of Soil Mechanics, Addison Wesley, World Student Edition. Leonards G.A.Foundation Engineering, McGraw-Hill. Bowles J.E.Foundations Analysis and Design, McGraw-Hill. Peck R.B., Hanson W.E. and Thornburn T.H. Foundation Engineering, John Wiley and Sons.