Course outline (click here to obtain course information)

Laboratory Groups and Schedule (click here to obtain lab schedule)

Tutorial Groups and schedule (click here to obtain tutorial schedule)

Laboratory handouts

Classification (click here to obtain laboratory instruction sheet)
Compaction (click here to obtain laboratory instruction sheet)
Flow nets (click here to obtain laboratory instruction sheet)
Oedometer (click here to obtain laboratory instruction sheet)
Shear Box (click here to obtain laboratory instruction sheet)

Laboratory cover sheets. These must accompany the submission of your laboratory reports (click here)

Tutorial questions for the course (click here to download)

Answers to tutorial questions (click here)

Blank grading curve sheet (click here)

Lecture 1 - Classification (notes) (powerpoint slides)

Lecture 2 - Definitions (notes) (powerpoint slides)

Lecture 3 - Compaction (notes) (powerpoint slides)

Lecture 4 - Effective Stress (notes) (powerpoint slides)

Lecture 5 - Steady State Flow (notes) (powerpoint slides)

Lecture 6 - Flow Nets (notes) (powerpoint slides)

Lecture 7 - Anisotropic Flow and Piping (notes) (powerpoint slides)

Lecture 8 - One-dimensional Compression of soils (notes) (powerpoint slides)

Lecture 9 - One-dimensional settlement calculation (notes) (powerpoint slides)

Lecture 10 - One-dimensional Consolidation (notes) (powerpoint slides)

Lecture 11 - Numerical solutions for one-dimensional consolidation (notes) (powerpoint slides)

Lecture 12 - Elasticity for soils (notes) (powerpoint slides)

Lecture 13 - Settlement of foundations on elastic soils (notes) (powerpoint slides)

Lecture 14 - Soil strength (notes) (powerpoint slides)

Lecture 15 - Stress, strain behaviour (notes) (powerpoint slides)

Lecture 16 - Earth pressures (Rankine's method) (notes) (powerpoint slides)

Lecture 17 - Earth pressures (Coulomb's method) (notes) (powerpoint slides)

Previous Soil Mechanics A exams 1997/2004 (click here to download)

Previous exam questions on strength, stress-strain, rankine, coulomb (click here)

Answers to questions on strength, stress-strain, rankine, coulomb (click here)

Solutions to exam questions 1997/2004 (click here to download)

Selected Links Useful in this course

Geotechnical Engineers - career information (click here)

Geotechnical photo album (click here)

Swedish Geotechnical Institute database, has good coverage of recent research (click here)