Welcome to CE488 Environmental Geotechnics Lecture #14 Dept. of Civil - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Welcome to CE488 Environmental Geotechnics Lecture #14

• Dept. of Civil Engineering

IIT Bombay

Soil Mechanics is the application of the laws of mechanics and hydraulics to engineering problems dealing with sediments and other unconsolidated accumulations of solid particles produced by the mechanical and chemical disintegration of rocks regardless of whether or not they contain an admixture of organic constituents. ‐Karl Terzaghi

Soil Soil Me Mechanics

• Mineralogy
• CEC
• DDL

Soil Water Air Chemistry

Sedimentary rock Metamorphic rock Magma Igneous tock Sediments Burial and hardening High temperature and pressure Melting Rising and cooling Biological, Physical and Chemical weathering

Genesis of the study

CH4 CH4 CH4 H2S H2S H2S

SOIL CHARACTERISATION PHYSICAL CHARACTERISATION CHEMICAL CHARACTERISATION MINERALOGICAL CHARACTERISATION

MORPHOLOGICEAL CHARACTERISATION

BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISATION

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