1. Introduction to earthern structures 2. Cavity expansion theory and its applications 3. Earth pressure theories
4. Retaining walls: Design of retaining walls and stability checks 5. Sheet pile walls/anchored bulkheads, open cuts 6. Theory of arching in soils and its applications in tunnels 7. Diaphragm walls, pre-stressed ground anchors 8. Slope stability: Methods of analysis
9. Slope protection and stabilisation 10. Earth dams and embankments: Choice of material, design of section, filters and drains 11. Numerical packages used for solving some earth pressure and slope stability problems
CE 6350 - Critical State Soil Mechanics
Course Content |
1. Revisiting fundamental aspects of soil behaviour 2. Elemental testing of geomaterials 3. Compression of soils
4. Stress path and invariants 5. Critical state concepts, Roscoe and Hvorslev surface 6. Brief introduction to continuum mechanics 7. Linear and non-linear elasticity 8. Constitutive laws (classical plasticity)
9. Original Cam clay and Modified Cam clay 10. Introduction to anisotropic critical state theory