Lecture Notes on Geotechnical Engineering

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Course notes built around a standard syllabus: soil origin and classification, permeability and seepage, compaction and consolidation, and shear strength. Follows the module structure most engineering programs use, with derivations kept short and worked problems at the end of each topic.

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