This course covers the OSHA Excavation Standard and safety and health aspects of excavation and trenching. Course topics include practical soil mechanics and its relationship to the stability of ...

More art than science, earthwork engineering relied heavily on local custom in 1904 when Karl Terzaghi earned an engineering degree in Austria. After supervising a dam project in Croatia and studying ...

The book “Towards a Unified Soil Mechanics Theory (The Use of Effective Stresses in Unsaturated Soils, Third Edition)” develops a unified theory for saturated and unsaturated soils. The main equations ...

Recent advances in soil mechanics have enhanced our understanding of anchor behaviour and pullout capacity, pivotal factors in ensuring the stability and resilience of both offshore and onshore ...

450-1: Shear strength of soils. Theory of consolidation. Problems of rate-independent and rate-dependent settlement. 450-2: Foundation engineering. Bearing capacity of shallow and deep foundations.

A new study has revealed the 3D structure of a barley root protein that protects plants from toxic aluminum in acidic soils. Unlike most transporters, this protein exports citrate—an anion that binds ...