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Geotechnical engineering is a branch of civil engineering that is concerned with investigating soil and rock conditions below the surface, determining their engineering properties, assessing risks from natural hazards, and designing earthworks, foundations, and retaining structures. A typical project involves reviewing needs, investigating the subsurface site conditions, and determining appropriate foundation and earthwork designs for structures based on the soil and rock properties. Geotechnical engineers also evaluate risks from hazards like earthquakes, landslides, and sinkholes.

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Geotechnical engineering is a branch of civil engineering that is concerned with investigating soil and rock conditions below the surface, determining their engineering properties, assessing risks from natural hazards, and designing earthworks, foundations, and retaining structures. A typical project involves reviewing needs, investigating the subsurface site conditions, and determining appropriate foundation and earthwork designs for structures based on the soil and rock properties. Geotechnical engineers also evaluate risks from hazards like earthquakes, landslides, and sinkholes.

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Geotechnical engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials.

Geotechnical engineering includes investigating existing subsurface conditions and materials; determining their physical/mechanical and chemical properties that are relevant to the project considered, assessing risks posed by site conditions; designing earthworks and structure foundations; and monitoring site conditions, earthwork and foundation construction. A typical geotechnical engineering project begins with a review of project needs to define the required material properties. Then follows a site investigation of soil, rock, fault distribution and bedrock properties on and below an area of interest to determine their engineering properties including how they will interact with, on or in a proposed construction. Site investigations are needed to gain an understanding of the area in or on which the engineering will take place. Investigations can include the assessment of the risk to humans, property and the environment from natural hazards such as earthquakes, landslides, sinkholes, soil liquefaction, debris flows and rock falls. A geotechnical engineer then determines and designs the type of foundations, earthworks, and/or pavement subgrades required for the intended man-made structures to be built. Foundations are designed and constructed for structures of various sizes such as high-rise buildings, bridges, medium to large commercial building, and smaller structures where the soil conditions do not allow code-based design. Foundations built for above-ground structures include shallow and deep foundations. Retaining structures include earth-filled dams and retaining walls. Earthworks include embankments, tunnels, dikes, levees, channels, reservoirs, deposition of hazardous waste and sanitary landfills. Geotechnical engineering is also related to coastal and ocean engineering. Coastal engineering can involve the design and construction of wharves, marinas, and jetties. Ocean engineering can involve foundation and anchor systems for offshore structures such as oil platforms. The fields of geotechnical engineering and engineering geology are closely related, and have large areas of overlap. However, the field of geotechnical engineering is a specialty of engineering, where the field of engineering geology is a specialty of geology.

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