Sylabus
- Recap on continuum mechanics and hydraulics- Fundamentals of unsaturated soil mechanics- Critical state soil mechanics and basics of constitutive modelling- Earth pressures and retaining structures- Foundations- Slope stability- Coupled processes in soils- Frozen soils- Thermal geomechanics
Anotace
The course is aimed at students who are already familiar with basic concepts of soil mechanics (mainly civil engineering and engineering geology students). However, a substantial recap will be done, to refresh the main concepts. Therefore, students without a background in soil mechanics are also welcome to join.
The course provides full online access to students joining through virtual mobility: broadcasted lectures and seminars, online material for self-study and interactive learning (e.g., online quizzes), multimedia material, tutorials and exercises using technical software, Q&A sessions.
We will use Google Classroom and YouTube to host the materials, and there will be both synchronous (live) and asynchronous lectures to allow students to attend at their own pace and schedule (to overcome schedule collisions).
The course will focus on a number of key topics in soil mechanics, also with the involvement, through online lectures/seminars, of external experts in specific topics.
Among the key topics of the course we will deal with critical state soil mechanics and the basis of constitutive modelling (also through interactive online visualisations), unsaturated soil mechanics and the concept of soil water retention curve, earth pressures and retaining structures, slope stability, coupled processes in soils, frozen soils and thermal geomechanics.