Quick Sand Condition Quicksand condition is a condition of flow in which vertical upward seepage flow causes floating condition of particles in cohesionless soils such as sands and fine gravels due to loss of shear strength in between particles. Quicksand is not a type of sand. Here the sand boiling...
Theories: New Mark— shows that influence chart for stress distribution in irregularly shaped areas. NewMark’s influence chart is based on the concept of the vertical stress below the centre of the circular area. Westergaard—shows stress distribution due to point load in an anisotropic medium. Westergaard assumed that an elastic soil...
Soil moisture tension(S.M.T) is the force per unit area required by plant to suck the water from the soil. It means that S.M.T is inversely proportional to water content in soil(more the water content less S.M.T required and vice versa) i.e. at field capacity it is easy for plant to...
