Geomechanics is the study of the engineering behaviour of soil and rock. The greek prefix Geo means Earth, and Mechanics looks at the behaviour of physical systems under the action of forces. Engineering applies scientific and technical knowledge to solve human problems. ... Soil is unconsolidated rock particles mixed with organic matter from plant decay. ... // Rock may refer to: Geology Rock (geology), a substance composed of minerals. ... Earth, also known as Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third-closest planet to the Sun. ... Mechanics refers to: a craft relating to machinery (from the Latin mechanicus, from the Greek mechanikos, meaning one skilled in machines), or a range of disciplines in science and engineering. ... This article may be too technical for most readers to understand. ...

The two main disciplines of Geomechanics are Soil mechanics and Rock mechanics. The former deals with the behaviour of "soft ground" from a local scale up to landslide or the foundation of buildings, and the latter with solid rock, crevices or tunneling. A common aspect of rock/soil is the technique of drillings and the observation of phenomena of the local geodynamics. Soil mechanics is a discipline that applies the principles of Engineering mechanics to predict the mechanical behavior of soil. ... A landslide is a geological phenomenon which includes a wide range of ground movement, such as rock falls, deep failure of slopes, and shallow debris flows, see flow. ... Look up Foundation on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Foundation may refer to: A type of makeup. ... // Rock may refer to: Geology Rock (geology), a substance composed of minerals. ... The word tunneling (also spelled tunnelling) has more than one meaning. ... An electric drill A drill is a tool with a rotary drill bit used to bore holes through material. ...

Other geomechanical sectors are related to geotechnical engineering: e.g. borehole physics, well planning, wellbore or dump stability, pore pressure analyses and Granular flow. Modern developments relate to cyclic loading, high-order continua, limit analysis or different transport phenomena. Bostons Big Dig presented geotechnical challenges in an urban environment. ... Water borehole in northern Uganda A borehole is a deep and narrow shaft in the ground used for abstraction of fluid or gas reserves below the earths surface. ... For the Scottish football team, see Motherwell F.C. The Whole Earth Lectronic Link (or The WELL) is one of the oldest virtual communities still online. ... Look up Dump in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Dump can mean: A landfill (usually a less formal and well-contained one). ... A pore, in general, is some form of opening, usually very small. ... Granula was this first manufactured breakfast cereal invented by James Caleb Jackson in 1863. ... In telecommunication, the term loading means the insertion of impedance into a circuit to change the characteristics of the circuit. ... Look up Continuum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...