Geotechnical Engineering Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 3. this type of soil settles very quickly
- 5. the ratio of the weight per volume of material
- 7. this soil settles slowly overtime
- 9. most common clay minerals
- 10. t
- 11. if the relative density is between 15 and 35 the soil is considered this
- 13. one of the three atterberg limits
- 14. waters ability to flow through a soil
Down
- 1. removes voids
- 2. these solutions can be integrated to give stresses below external loadings
- 4. the degree of this is the ratio of the amount of water per soil in terms of weight
- 6. coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock that contains mainly quartz and feldspar minerals
- 7. caused by expulsion of pore water pressure
- 8. the type of physical property that clay has due to its chemical properties
- 12. combination of flow lines and equipotential lines creates this
- 15. this type of stress is calculated by unit weight times depth