Advanced Soil Mechanics Courseoutline B

Advanced Soil Mechanics

I. Basics
II. Course Content
1. Settlement Analysis
 Immediate Settlement
 Primary Settlement
 Secondary Settlement
 Time Settlement
 Rheological Models

2. Stress Distribution in Soils

3. Stress-Path Representation in Soils Under Loading

4. Critical State Soil Mechanics

 Plasticity and Yielding

 Elastoplastic Soil Models
 Yield Criteria
 Flow Rule, Hardening Rule

5. Application of Constitutive Models using Software

III. Evaluation

 Continuous assessment 40-50 %

 Final exam 50-60%

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IV. References

1. Advanced Soil Mechanics

Das

McGraw-Hill, 2008

2. The mechanics of Soils

Atkinson/Bransby

McGraw-Hill, 1982

3. Critical State Soil Mechanics

Schofield/Worth

McGraw-Hill, 1968

4. Formulae Charts and Tables - Stress in Soils

Teferra/Schultze

Balkem, 1988

5. Soil Behaviour and Critical State Soil Mechanics

Wood

Cambridge University Press, 1990

6. Soil Mechanics

Teferra/Leikun

AAU Press, 1999

7. Soil Mechanics and Foundation

Budhu

John Willey, 2000

8. Theoretical Soil Mechanics

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Terzaghi, A.

John Willey, 1956

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