Geotechnical Engineering
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- Geo - Earth
- Technical - having special knowledge
- Geotechnical engineering is a sub-discipline within Civil Engineering that has direct application to the solution of problems involving soils and rock.
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Soil Mechanics
- Rock Mechanics
- Foundation Engineering
- Engineering Geology
- Soil MechanicsBranch of Civil Engineering concerned with the study of soil and its behavior under different types of loads using the principles of engineering mechanics, fluid mechanics, mechanics of dynamics, and thermal dynamics.
- Rock Mechanics
- study of the mechanical behavior of rocks and rock masses to force fields of their physical environment
- application of engineering mechanics principles to the design of rock structures such as tunnels, mining shafts, underground excavation, open pit mines, oil and gas wells, road cuts, and waste repositories.
- Foundation EngineeringArt and science of using engineering judgement and the principles of soil mechanincs to predict the response of earth masses to changed conditions of geometry and/or loads.
- Engineering Geology
- Concerned with the application of geological knowledge to engineering problems.
- Geology - science that deals with the Earth's physical structure and substance, its history, and the processes that act on it.