Abstract
Soil mechanics is a branch of engineering that describes the behavior of soils. The research object of soil mechanics is the soil on the earth’s surface, including large stone, clay, silt, sand, gravel soil, soft and highly compressed peat organic sediments, and so on.
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Yu, MH. (2023). Introduction. In: Soil Mechanics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2781-4_1
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