IIT-Madras
Course Instructor
- Analysis of state of stress in soil
- Failure theory; Shear strength of clays and sands
- Site investigation and subsoil exploration
- Earth pressure theories and retaining walls
- Stability analysis; Sheet piles and its applications
- Analysis of anchored wall
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Bearing capacity of shallow foundations and deep foundations
- Methods of construction
- Slope stability: Methods of analysis
- Types of failure and methods of analysis
- Introduction to soil dynamics
- Introduction to earthern structures
- Cavity expansion theory and its applications
- Earth pressure theories
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Retaining walls: Design of retaining walls and stability
checks
- Sheet pile walls / anchored bulkheads, open cuts
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Theory of arching in soils and its applications in tunnels
- Diaphragm walls, pre-stressed ground anchors
- Slope stability: Methods of analysis
- Slope protection and stabilisation
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Earth dams and embankments: Choice of material, design of
section, filters and drains
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Numerical packages used for solving some earth pressure and
slope stability problems
- Revisiting fundamental tenets of soil behaviour
- Elemental testing of geomaterials
- Compression of soils
- Behaviour of OC and NC soils
- State boundary surfaces
- Stress path and invariants
- Critical state concepts, Roscoe and Hvorslev surface
- Brief introduction to continuum mechanics
- Vector calculus and indicial notation
- Tensors
- Kinetics and Kinematics
- Linear and non-linear elasticity
- Isotropic linear elastic stress-strain relations
- Hyperbolic non-linear model
- Constitutive laws (classical plasticity)
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Yield function - (Tresca, Von-Mises, Mohr-Coulomb model
and others)
- Flow rule and plastic potential
- Hardening law
- Associated and non-associated plasticity
- Original Cam clay and Modified Cam clay
- Introduction to anisotropic critical state theory
Course Coordinator
Short Courses
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Organized AICTE-QIP sponsored short course at IIT Madras on
"Introduction to Constitutive Modelling" (Jan-2022)
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Presented CCE sponsored short course at IISc Bangalore on "Soil
Constitutive Models" (May-2023)