PE Exam Preparation for Geotechnical Engineers

This blog intends to help anyone preparing for PE exam or practicing in the area of geotechnical engineering. You are welcome to post your questions related to soil mechanics and I'll try to solve them. I am a senior-level professional geotechnical engineer currently based in Houston, TX. I started this blog in order to help anyone who is preparing for PE and/or has questions related to geotechnical engineering. I took my PE exam on April 2009 (and passed!).

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Lateral Earth Pressures - Cohesive Soils

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Monday, June 23, 2014

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I am back after almost 5 years. Last five years have seen me grow as a person, as an engineer, become a father, and move to Texas. I will s...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Lateral Earth Pressure

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My inability to be able to steal some time out of my schedule leaves me no option but to provide you with some links that might help you. I...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

A question by a visitor

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Anonymous said... I'm confused in calculating the effective vertical stress in a sandy gravel soil layer below the graound water le...
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Sorry guys...

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I am extremely sorry guys...its been a very busy several weeks...I'll try to post something on retaining walls before the PE exam.
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Saturday, October 3, 2009

Shear Strength - Problem #3

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A Consolidated Undrained (CU) triaxial test is conducted on silt. The effective cell pressure is 4.32 ksf. The deviator stress is 3.45 ksf. ...
Thursday, October 1, 2009

Shear Strength-Triaxial Test

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Advantages: 1. Suitable for cohesive soils as well 2. Samples can be saturated 3. Principal planes do not rotate 4. Failure will seek th...
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