Growing up in Haiti, Northwestern Engineering’s Ludmilla Aristilde looked critically at the land and thought about how soil sustains plants. This came naturally; her father was both an educator and ...

Soils can rarely be described as ideally elastic or perfectly plastic and yet simple elastic and plastic models form the basis for the most traditional geotechnical engineering calculations. With the ...

Steps to help farmers boost soil health and water quality were set out at an annual conference in Shropshire. The Soil and ...

Course topics include practical soil mechanics and its relationship to the stability of shored and unshored ... Testing methods are demonstrated and students participate in workshops in the use of ...