Understanding why soils fail
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Soil mechanics is at the heart of any civil engineering project. Whether the project is a building, a bridge, or a road, understanding the underlain soils is of crucial importance. This video is a series of several geotechnical videos that will investigate retaining walls, shallow foundations and piles. But before we dive into these geotechnical applications it is important to understand a few basic principles about soil mechanics. This series starts by generic introduction of soil material models. Namely, the Mohr-Coulomb model which is widely used for modeling the strength of brittle materials.
Geotechnical Series Videos:
1. Understanding why soils fail ( • Understanding why soil... )
2. Understanding the Soil Mechanics of Retaining Walls ( • Understanding the soil... )
3. Geotechnical Analysis of Foundations ( • Geotechnical Analysis ... )
4. The Leading Cause of Foundation Failures ( • Residential Foundation... )
References:
[1] D. P. Coduto, M.-c. R. Yeung and W. A. Kitch, Geotechnical Engineering Principles and Practices, Pearson, 2011.
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Heck yeah! I work in retention wall design, so I'm pretty excited for this series
@TheEngineeringHub
Жыл бұрын
That's great Matthew, retaining walls are coming next (in about 2 weeks). Looking forward to your feedback and discussion on that video.
@adaptercrash
Жыл бұрын
No permafrost that's really heavy, you have to dig it mix it then put it back
Great explanation of soil shear strength with easy-to-understand visuals! Job well-done!
@TheEngineeringHub
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Xinbao, positive feedback from our viewers means so much!
Fascinating and so well-illustrated. You know how to appeal to intuitive understandings so as to make the videos compelling!
The animations, explanations of concepts - everything is on point! Thank you!
@TheEngineeringHub
Жыл бұрын
And thank you for taking a second to say this. It means a lot to us 🙏🙏
Excellent video series! My group is very appreciative. Feom time to time, we show them to our clients When we need to explain a concept that's hard for them to understand. Thank yiu for imparting knowledge and please continue enlightening the masses.
So happy to see videos on geotechnics!
i am a residential builder and i appreciate these informative videos.
thank you for the intuitive explanation of the soil friction angle. These videos are super helpful.
@TheEngineeringHub
Жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful! More videos are on the way!
This is wonderful. Thanks for all your work.
@TheEngineeringHub
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for the kind words Mister P. Comments like this always keep us motivated to do more!
Thanks for the explanation about soil mechanics! Very useful information. Keep up the good working!
@TheEngineeringHub
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Mavlonov, new soils video coming out soon, stay tuned!
Just what I'm looking for, nice explanation keep up with videos of geothecnics applications!!
@TheEngineeringHub
Жыл бұрын
More to come, stay tuned and thanks for the comment!
Awesome explanation! Thank you!
Concise, clear and knowledgeable 👌
I think you have explained the concept of soil strength well.
Very educative.....I want to get deeper understanding in Geotechnical engineering and why foundation fails
Very good and clear explanation, I'm studying geotechnics right now and this video is really great. A video about the calculus of elastic and plastic deformation on triaxials would be great 🤪🤣 Keep up the good work 🙌🏼💪🏼
@TheEngineeringHub
Жыл бұрын
Hi Andrea, thanks for the comment. We are very glad you liked the video, we will keep building with more videos and increase the complexity slowly. It might be a bit early for complex stress states and plasticity yet but could come up in the future.
I work as a geotechnical engineer for a large European construction company and I enjoy such short spot-on videos for in-house training purposes.
@TheEngineeringHub
Жыл бұрын
We are flattered Maxim, thank you so much for your comment! If you enjoyed this video there is a good chance you might find our video on retaining walls also entertaining!
Good video. More on slope stability would be helpful for me.
Great video my dude
Thanks a lot... in just 5mn i learnt what i couldn't learn in my 4 years of engineering degree...
Excellent!
Good animation and explanation
Amazing sir
This channel is highly underated.
@TheEngineeringHub
Жыл бұрын
We are flattered, thank you Victor 🙏
Great value addition Thanks Sir 🙏
@TheEngineeringHub
Жыл бұрын
So nice of you, thank you sir! Your comment is appreciated!
Good job man, keep going 👍
@TheEngineeringHub
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, will do!
Andrew Schofield, one of the pioneers of critical state soil mechanics and cam clays recommends people not to use the term cohesion but instead use cementation
In the case of post pull out or lift, do you ever consider impact of vacuum created with upward movement of post?
Best and simplest explanations without getting bogged down with white board drawings and funny math. Thanks!
@TheEngineeringHub
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Patrick!
In Norway a farmer was having some kind of pit dug. The soil was piled up along the bank of a nearby river. And a sheer slide started. Evidently this land, some of the best farmland in Norway, is on top of a layer of clay. When it started sliding the whole layer slid taking, as I remember, about 4 whole farms with it. It is continuing sporadically. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around that. How did that bit of soil piled up on the river bank so destabilize the whole area?
Shear resistance of a material is normally a third to a half of the the compressive resistance
Thank You
Nice buddy
I was expecting to hear about the hydrostatic pressure gradient (or some equivalent for saturated soil) affecting the shear stability of a soil medium.
@TheEngineeringHub
Жыл бұрын
That will be coming up in the next videos when we go over slope stability. We felt that it was a bit too early to go too debt into stability.
very good explanation. if you don't mind, What kind of program do you use for drawing ?
@TheEngineeringHub
Жыл бұрын
Hi alzou, we use a variety of software. Which drawing are you referring to?
oh. wasn't the sort of soil failure i was thinking of but extremely interesting all the same
@TheEngineeringHub
Жыл бұрын
Hi Billy, this was an introductory video with broad and technical content. Stay tuned for the geotechnical applications that follow with more specific failure examples.
Good way of explanation
@TheEngineeringHub
Жыл бұрын
That means a lot given that is coming from a Geotechnical Engineering Consultancy!
@taretouurio201
Жыл бұрын
Excellent presentation
Hello nice presentation! But i have one question. If soil is totally dry (no water in voids) shear failure occurs when friction between soil particles is smaller then shear stress in the soil, and that's obvious when you think about it, BUT, what about wet soils or soils that are in groundwater (saturated soils)? Friction now is not intuitive and what is the mechanism of failure then?
@MKowalska
Жыл бұрын
As long as the particles in the soil are in contact the friction will be there. What happens in a saturated soil is that the positive water pressure decreases the stress that holds the particles together. This is knows as the 'Terzaghi's law' of effective stress. From the total stress coming from e.g. the total weight of the overburden (the weight of the soil column, including the soil particles and the water between them) we have to subtract the pore water pressure - this resulting stress is the one that is really important. As long as it is larger than zero, there will be some positive shear strength. If the soil is not fully saturated (unsaturated) some suction may exist between the particles - this is then increasing the effective stress and so - increasing the shear strength. The Coulomb-Mohr principle saying that (the shear strength) = (the effective normal stress) * (the angle of friction) holds true for all dry, wet and saturated soils.
@Veke96
Жыл бұрын
So if effective stress is zero or very small any vertical load on that saturated soil will cause it to fail in shear?
@MKowalska
Жыл бұрын
@@Veke96 Any HORIZONTAL load will shear it. Yes. Unless it is a fine preconsolidated soil (e.g. clay that has been loaded before more than it is now) or very angular coarse soil (sand, gravel). In these cases the shear strength may be increased (up to some effective stress) by 'cohesion' being the effect of interlocking of the grains/particles. In soils the history of loading is important...
In practice, soil would not be able to carry increasing loads, even if well co fined because of firstly the particle crushing and secondly chemical changes due to high pressure
@TheEngineeringHub
7 ай бұрын
Yup, you are absolutely right. But those types of stresses would be beyond a structural application.
How much time it takes to make 1 video I hope you'll reply me
@TheEngineeringHub
Жыл бұрын
Hi @dilipkumarpatel481, it ranges from video to video. This one was on the low end and took about 40-50 hours. Other video can take even up to 100 hours if the topic requires a longer explanation and the animations are more complex. Thanks for the comment!
where I study people claims that this is the thing to understand
um, cause they didn't study hard enough and they didn't get any support from their parents...I am right ? what did I win ?
@TheEngineeringHub
Жыл бұрын
hahah love this, one of my favorite comments on the channel for sure! 😂
The video is made in Hindi and is less understandable in English.😂