The documents below supplement the course textbook. Not all are required reading. Some are here to provide information you can use to better understand the topics we'll cover or simply delve more deeply into a topic of interest to you. I will probably add to the list here as the semester goes along, so check back occassionally.

Soil Structure and Compaction

TRB Special Report 163 (Estimation of Consolidation Settlement)

Closed-Form Settlement Solutions

Surcharge Preloading Pitfalls and Misunderstandings

Inflection Point Method

Rectangular Hyperbola Method