Roy Whitlow Basic Soil Mechanics [extra Quality] May 2026

Soil mechanics has numerous applications in civil engineering, including:

Whitlow points out that the tower tilted because the foundation clay was in the past (by ancient glacial ice) but is now normally consolidated under its own weight. The engineers used undrained parameters for a drained problem. Whitlow’s solution: If they had run a simple oedometer test to find the Pre-consolidation Pressure (σ'p), they would have predicted the tilt in 1173 CE. roy whitlow basic soil mechanics

Whitlow connects the lab to the field.