Course overview
The aim of this course is to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of key processes involved in advanced soil mechanics analysis and geotechnical design. Soil behaviours: Undrained, drained and partial drained soil behaviour under stress or strain control loading paths; Critical state of soil: introduction of critical state of soil, effect of saturation/unsaturation, drained/undrained on critical state. Introduction of critical state soil mechanics framework; State concept: State concept of soil and simplified constitutive modelling. State concept in liquefaction potential analysis. Empirical relation among soil states and design parameters; Design: analysis and design of piles and pile groups.
Course learning outcomes
- Develop specialised knowledge and advanced professional understanding of short/long term (drained/undrained) behaviour of soil under stress or strain control loading.
- Develop advanced and integrated understanding of the concept of critical state of soil mechanics.
- Critically analyse and evaluate/generalize soil behaviour based on state concept.
- Reflect on and critically analyse soil behaviour using simplified constitutive modelling.
- Develop advanced and integrated understanding of behaviour of piles under different loading conditions
- Reflect on theory and professional practices and design/analyse single pile and pile groups under common loading conditions.