Chapter 29
Geotechnical Engineering
29.1 INTRODUCTION TO GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
Soil engineering, soil mechanics or geotechnical engineering is one of the youngest disciplines of civil engineering involving the study of soil, its behaviour and application as an engineering material. Geotechnical engineering is the application of laws of mechanics and hydraulics to engineering problems dealing with sediments and other unconsolidated accumulations of solid particles produced by the mechanical or chemical disintegration of rocks regardless of whether they contain an admixture of organic constituents or not.
Geotechnical engineering can also be defined as a branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behaviour of the earth's materials. ...
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