Understanding why soils fail

Ғылым және технология

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.

Пікірлер: 70

  • @TheEngineeringHub
    @TheEngineeringHub Жыл бұрын

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  • @matthew8505
    @matthew8505 Жыл бұрын

    Heck yeah! I work in retention wall design, so I'm pretty excited for this series

  • @TheEngineeringHub

    @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

    @adaptercrash

    Жыл бұрын

    No permafrost that's really heavy, you have to dig it mix it then put it back

  • @xinbaoyu3086
    @xinbaoyu3086 Жыл бұрын

    Great explanation of soil shear strength with easy-to-understand visuals! Job well-done!

  • @TheEngineeringHub

    @TheEngineeringHub

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Xinbao, positive feedback from our viewers means so much!

  • @blixten2928
    @blixten2928 Жыл бұрын

    Fascinating and so well-illustrated. You know how to appeal to intuitive understandings so as to make the videos compelling!

  • @faridaismayilova3607
    @faridaismayilova3607 Жыл бұрын

    The animations, explanations of concepts - everything is on point! Thank you!

  • @TheEngineeringHub

    @TheEngineeringHub

    Жыл бұрын

    And thank you for taking a second to say this. It means a lot to us 🙏🙏

  • @teg861
    @teg861 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @ionelmihai6390
    @ionelmihai6390 Жыл бұрын

    So happy to see videos on geotechnics!

  • @histershellac2842
    @histershellac2842 Жыл бұрын

    i am a residential builder and i appreciate these informative videos.

  • @mohamedkhan4762
    @mohamedkhan4762 Жыл бұрын

    thank you for the intuitive explanation of the soil friction angle. These videos are super helpful.

  • @TheEngineeringHub

    @TheEngineeringHub

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad it was helpful! More videos are on the way!

  • @MisterPunisher22
    @MisterPunisher22 Жыл бұрын

    This is wonderful. Thanks for all your work.

  • @TheEngineeringHub

    @TheEngineeringHub

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for the kind words Mister P. Comments like this always keep us motivated to do more!

  • @ravshanbekmavlonov2996
    @ravshanbekmavlonov2996 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the explanation about soil mechanics! Very useful information. Keep up the good working!

  • @TheEngineeringHub

    @TheEngineeringHub

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Mavlonov, new soils video coming out soon, stay tuned!

  • @emiliodavid5668
    @emiliodavid5668 Жыл бұрын

    Just what I'm looking for, nice explanation keep up with videos of geothecnics applications!!

  • @TheEngineeringHub

    @TheEngineeringHub

    Жыл бұрын

    More to come, stay tuned and thanks for the comment!

  • @lavanya1108
    @lavanya1108 Жыл бұрын

    Awesome explanation! Thank you!

  • @Carlos-qz7ul
    @Carlos-qz7ul Жыл бұрын

    Concise, clear and knowledgeable 👌

  • @user-xx8qe4qg8y
    @user-xx8qe4qg8y Жыл бұрын

    I think you have explained the concept of soil strength well.

  • @tsormanyamichael1317
    @tsormanyamichael13173 ай бұрын

    Very educative.....I want to get deeper understanding in Geotechnical engineering and why foundation fails

  • @andreabuzzolan9807
    @andreabuzzolan9807 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @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.

  • @maximkretsch7134
    @maximkretsch7134 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @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!

  • @stephencomino3219
    @stephencomino3219 Жыл бұрын

    Good video. More on slope stability would be helpful for me.

  • @guckfoogle2779
    @guckfoogle2779 Жыл бұрын

    Great video my dude

  • @miromar3055
    @miromar3055 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot... in just 5mn i learnt what i couldn't learn in my 4 years of engineering degree...

  • @pedrohenriquecarneiro904
    @pedrohenriquecarneiro904 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent!

  • @techguy6565
    @techguy6565 Жыл бұрын

    Good animation and explanation

  • @ajazmahemoodsayyed4122
    @ajazmahemoodsayyed4122 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing sir

  • @happy33443434
    @happy33443434 Жыл бұрын

    This channel is highly underated.

  • @TheEngineeringHub

    @TheEngineeringHub

    Жыл бұрын

    We are flattered, thank you Victor 🙏

  • @santoshkumarbabar7215
    @santoshkumarbabar7215 Жыл бұрын

    Great value addition Thanks Sir 🙏

  • @TheEngineeringHub

    @TheEngineeringHub

    Жыл бұрын

    So nice of you, thank you sir! Your comment is appreciated!

  • @mohamedosman7495
    @mohamedosman7495 Жыл бұрын

    Good job man, keep going 👍

  • @TheEngineeringHub

    @TheEngineeringHub

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks, will do!

  • @Martin-iw1ll
    @Martin-iw1ll7 ай бұрын

    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

  • @dannygoad5741
    @dannygoad5741 Жыл бұрын

    In the case of post pull out or lift, do you ever consider impact of vacuum created with upward movement of post?

  • @patrickwhalen1770
    @patrickwhalen1770 Жыл бұрын

    Best and simplest explanations without getting bogged down with white board drawings and funny math. Thanks!

  • @TheEngineeringHub

    @TheEngineeringHub

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Patrick!

  • @veramae4098
    @veramae4098 Жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @Martin-iw1ll
    @Martin-iw1ll7 ай бұрын

    Shear resistance of a material is normally a third to a half of the the compressive resistance

  • @WeziMuwowo
    @WeziMuwowo Жыл бұрын

    Thank You

  • @kandikatlasrinivas1571
    @kandikatlasrinivas1571 Жыл бұрын

    Nice buddy

  • @AaronBrand
    @AaronBrand Жыл бұрын

    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

    @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.

  • @alzou2009
    @alzou2009 Жыл бұрын

    very good explanation. if you don't mind, What kind of program do you use for drawing ?

  • @TheEngineeringHub

    @TheEngineeringHub

    Жыл бұрын

    Hi alzou, we use a variety of software. Which drawing are you referring to?

  • @billynomates920
    @billynomates920 Жыл бұрын

    oh. wasn't the sort of soil failure i was thinking of but extremely interesting all the same

  • @TheEngineeringHub

    @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.

  • @GeotechnicalAnuragKapoor79
    @GeotechnicalAnuragKapoor79 Жыл бұрын

    Good way of explanation

  • @TheEngineeringHub

    @TheEngineeringHub

    Жыл бұрын

    That means a lot given that is coming from a Geotechnical Engineering Consultancy!

  • @taretouurio201

    @taretouurio201

    Жыл бұрын

    Excellent presentation

  • @Veke96
    @Veke96 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @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

    @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

    @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...

  • @Martin-iw1ll
    @Martin-iw1ll7 ай бұрын

    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

    @TheEngineeringHub

    7 ай бұрын

    Yup, you are absolutely right. But those types of stresses would be beyond a structural application.

  • @dilipkumarpatel481
    @dilipkumarpatel481 Жыл бұрын

    How much time it takes to make 1 video I hope you'll reply me

  • @TheEngineeringHub

    @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!

  • @fredericotacio3473
    @fredericotacio3473 Жыл бұрын

    where I study people claims that this is the thing to understand

  • @rainman7992
    @rainman7992 Жыл бұрын

    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

    @TheEngineeringHub

    Жыл бұрын

    hahah love this, one of my favorite comments on the channel for sure! 😂

  • @vitthalpatange6774
    @vitthalpatange67745 ай бұрын

    The video is made in Hindi and is less understandable in English.😂

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