Every man-made structure is constructed on or within soils. Correct knowledge of soil behavior is fundamentally important for safeguarding the integrity and safety of the structure. The objective of this course is to introduce the basic concepts and fundamental principles of soil mechanics and provide analytical methods for design and evaluation of geotechnical structures such as foundations, slopes and retaining walls.
Overview
Syllabus
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Index Properties of Soil and Soil Classification
- 2.1 Soil Formation and Grain Size
- 2.2 Mineral Composition of Soils
- 2.3 Phase Relationships of Soil
- 2.4 Physical States of Soil
- 2.5 Soil Fabric
- 2.6 Classification of Soils
- 2.7 Soil Compaction
- Chapter 3 Seepage Through Soils
- 3.1 One dimensional Seepage
- 3.2 Two dimensional Seepage
- Chapter4 Stress in Soil Mass
- Chapter 5 Compressibility of Soil
- 5.1 Compressibility of soil and fundamentals of consolidation
- 5.2 1-D consolidation test and interpretation (1)
- 5.3 1-D consolidation test and interpretation (2)
- 5.4 Calculation of settlement
- 5.5 Time rate of consolidation
- Chapter 6 Shear Strength of Soil
- 6.1 Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion
- 6.2 Direct shear test
- 6.3 Conventional Triaxial Tests Part one
- 6.4 Conventional Triaxial Tests Part two
- Chapter 7 Earth Pressure on Retaining Structures
- 7.1 Lateral Earth Pressure
- 7.2 Rankine’s Earth Pressure Theory
- 7.3 Coulomb’s Earth Pressure Theory
- Chapter 8 Soil Slope Stability
- 8.1 Slope stability general introduction
- 8.2 Stability analysis of sandy slopes
- 8.3 Stability analysis of cohesive soil slopes
- Chapter 9 Bearing Capacity of Soil
- 9.1. Bearing capacity of soil - basic concepts
- 9.2 Modes of bearing capacity failure
- 9.3 Terzaghi's bearing capacity theory
Taught by
Rui Chen, Yao Li, Yanhua Liu, Peijie Yin, and Lili Xiao
