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Review of fundamentals, lateral earth pressure, retaining walls, sheet-pile walls,
cantilever sheet-pile walls, anchored sheet-pile walls, braced-excavation, reinforced earth,
retaining walls with metallic strip reinforcement, retaining walls with metallic geotextile,
gabions.
Fourth Year
  
Site investigation, bearing capacity of soils and rocks, distribution of stresses in soils, settlement of shallow foundations, factors to consider in foundation design, deep foundations capacity and settlement, lateral earth pressure and retaining walls, foundation on expansive soils, stability of slopes.
Third Year
  
Index properties of soils, soil classification, plow in porous media: one dimensional
and two dimensional flow, soil-stresses, compaction, distribution of stresses due to surface
loads, consolidation theory and effect of construction period, shear strength of soils and
shear strength tests.
Second Year