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Soil mechanics recognize the physical properties of soil. Especially, they are looking at how a soil’s properties may affect strength, drainage, and stability. This is the basis for all geotechnical engineering. These properties are valuable when it comes to foundations. Soil mechanics research is how and how much soils deform, how soils resists deformation, and estimates their strength under different boundary conditions and different loading conditions. Soil Mechanics, though it seems to be of little importance to the civil engineers, it consists of an essential portion in the course. This describes the genesis and composition of soil, the differentiation between pore water pressure and inter-granular effective stress, capillarity of fluids within the soil pore spaces, soil distribution, seepage and accessibility, time dependent change of volume due to squeezing water out of tiny pore spaces, also known as consolidation, shear strength and stiffness of soils. Soil may be a natural aggregate of mineral particles, sometimes including organic constituents; it's solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. How the soil of a given site will support the stresses put upon it by the load of structures, or how it'll answer movement within the course of construction, depends upon six properties—internal friction and cohesion, both of which lessen the tendency of soils to shear, or slide along planes; compressibility; elasticity and capillarity.

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