Advanced Soil Mechanics

Learning Outcomes:

The course aims to provide an extensive insight into aspects of advanced soil mechanics, which are necessary to consider in contemporary design of geotechnical structures which may involve advanced numerical analysis tools. These have not been covered by earlier more fundamental core undergraduate geotechnical courses which have covered classical soil mechanics principles. The subjects considered include the concept of effective stress, drained and undrained shear strength of soils, stiffness of soils (in particular its nonlinearity and anisotropy), the critical state framework, leading to development of advanced constitutive models of soil behaviour.

Topics:

1. Soil Behaviour
2. Soil Modelling
3. Permeability and Seepage
4. Shear Strength of Soil
5. Deformation and Settlement of Soil