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Geotechnical engineering (Page 1)
scientific study of earth materials in engineering problems; branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials
Subconcepts:
- Angle of repose
- Asperity (geotechnical engineering)
- Bearing capacity
- Bentonite
- Berm
- Borehole
- Breakwater
- Caisson
- Caprock
- Catastrophe theory
- Cavity wall
- Cofferdam
- Compaction
- Cone penetration test
- Crushed stone
- Culvert
- Dewatering
- Dilatant
- Distribution law
- Dry sand
- Dynamic load testing
- Earth materials
- Earthquake engineering
- Earthquake shaking table
- Earthworks
- Effective stress
- Embedment
- Excavation
- Factor of safety
- Flow line
- Flow routing
- Fracture (geology)
- Free water
- Fresh water
- Friction angle
- Frost heaving
- Geomechanics
- Geomembrane
- Geosynthetics
- Geotechnical investigation
- Geotechnics
- Geotextile
- Granular material
- Granulation
- Ground freezing
- Ground movement
- Ground pressure
- Ground subsidence
- Groundwater
- Grout
- Hydraulic fracturing
- Hydraulic head
- Hydraulic structure
- Hydrogeology
- Hydrology (agriculture)
- Hydro power
- Ice water
- Immersed tube
- Landslide
- Lateral earth pressure
- Lateral strain
- Levee
- Liquefaction
- Load testing
- Mass concrete
- Mississippi delta
- Non-Newtonian fluid
- Offshore geotechnical engineering
- Overburden
- Overburden pressure
- Penetration rate
- Persistence (discontinuity)
- Physical modelling
- Pile
- Pore water pressure
- Porosity
- Rammed earth
- Reservoir modeling
- Residence time (fluid dynamics)
- Retaining wall
- Revetment
- Riprap
- River bed
- Rock blasting
- Rock bolt
- Rock mass classification
- Rock mechanics
- Rubble
- Safety factor
- Salt water
- Seawall
- Seismic analysis
- Seismic loading
- Shearing (physics)
- Shotcrete
- Sieve analysis
- Site analysis
- Slope stability
- Spillway
- Sprayer
- Steep slope
- Stratum
- Subgrade
- Submarine pipeline
- Subsea
- Tailwater
- Thixotropy
- Three gorges
- Tunnel construction
- Underpinning
- Void ratio
- Wall rock
- Water area
- Water balance
- Water body
- Water chemistry
- Water content
- Water discharge
- Water flow
- Water intake
- Water pressure
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