define the engineering property of a soil. make a list of
list property(properties)

Answer Posted / anirudh

Engineering properties of a soil are those which are used
while designing in or with the given soil. For clays, the
engineering properties are Cohesion, internal friction,
Young's modulus, Poisson's ratio, Shear modulus etc and for
sands also they are the same except cohesion, of course.

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