Soil mechanics 1300-OMGR4W
The lecture is designed to acquaint a student with:
- stresses in soil (the stress tensor, deviator stress, stress invariants , Mohr's circle – biaxial, and triaxial, octahedral stress),
- total stress (in a variety soil-water systems),
- stress caused by structures (Boussinesqu's theory, Newmark’s diagaram, Rusin’s diagram, diagrams by Polish standards),
- stresses in the subsoil (in various stages of constructions),
- deformation of soils (load path during deformation of soil),
- settlement due to theory of elasticity (total settlement),
- settlement in time (uniaxial and triaxial consolidation),
- the reinforcement of the soil due to consolidation (the use of drains),
- soil strength (the study of shear strength of soil according to different load paths, the relation between strength and deviator stress),
- shear strength criteria (Coulomb-Mohr, Hubert-Mises, Content, Veibula, Griffith),
- shear strength plane (R.Chen, Kirkputrick, Gudehus, Brinch-Hansen and Lungren),
- rheological models of soils (basic and complex types of soils: Terzagni Poynting-Thomson), rheological test methods of soil properties,
- bearing capacity of subsoil (equilibrium state, unlimited bearing capacity),
- methods of lateral earth pressure analysis (cohesionless soils - Coulomb, Pillet, Poncellet, cohesive soils - Fellenius, Rendulič)
- methods of slope stability analysis (Fellenius, Bishop Taylor, Fisenka, Maslow).
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