 Introductions: definitions, soil formations, common soil types.  Simple soil properties and soil classifications: weight - volume relationships, grain size distribution, soil consistency.  Engineering soil classifications.  Soil water and seepage: soil water, permeability, flow nets, seepage, pressures and forces in soil water.  Compressibility and consolidation of soils: general measurement of compressibility, consolidation of soils  Stress distribution in soils and settlement analysis: stress distribution under own weight of soils and different loading conditions, elastic and consolidation settlement

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