450-1: Shear strength of soils. Theory of consolidation. Problems of rate-independent and rate-dependent settlement. 450-2: Foundation engineering. Bearing capacity of shallow and deep foundations.

PROF. KARL VON TERZAGHI delivered the A forty-fifth James Forrest Lecture at the Institution of Civil Engineers on May 2, taking as his subject “Soil Mechanics: a New Chapter in Engineering Science”.

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More art than science, earthwork engineering relied heavily on local custom in 1904 when Karl Terzaghi earned an engineering degree in Austria. After supervising a dam project in Croatia and studying ...

Soil and water scientist Dani Or, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, has joined the University of Nevada, Reno College of Engineering. Or is known for his contributions coupling soil ...

The Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics (SESM) research area teaches and perform research on mechanics of solids, mechanics of structures, and structural engineering. Our research spans ...

The graduate program in geotechnical engineering and geomechanics encompasses a broad spectrum of topics focused on the behavior of soil, rock, geosynthetics, and other porous media. Emphasis is ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Alessandro Rotta Loria has co-led a newly published Theme Issue of the academic journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Rotta Loria, Louis Berger ...