Behavior of Soils as Engineering Materials

3 Credits

Soil mineralogy, bondage, crystal structure and surface characteristics; clay-water electrolyte system; soil fabric and its measurement; soil structure and physical property relationships; soil depositional and compositional characteristics; engineering properties of soils as they relate to soil mineralogy, fabric and composition: volume change behavior, intergranular stresses, shear strength and deformation behavior, conduction behavior, coupled and direct flow phenomena. Students cannot receive credit for both CEE 344 and CEE 444 . Prerequisites: CEE 142