Geotechnical engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the behavior of earth materials — soils, rocks, and groundwater — and their interaction with foundations, retaining structures, and slopes. Every building, bridge, and dam ultimately transfers its loads into the ground, making soil mechanics the invisible foundation of all construction. Understanding bearing capacity, settlement, lateral earth pressure, and liquefaction is essential for safe and economical design.
These simulations let you calculate Terzaghi bearing capacity for shallow foundations, predict consolidation settlement over time, analyze Rankine earth pressures on retaining walls, estimate axial pile capacity in layered soils, and evaluate liquefaction potential under seismic loading — all with physically accurate equations and animated visualizations that respond to your parameter changes in real time.