GEOTECHNICS
Academic Year 2019/2020 - 3° Year
Teaching Staff: Ernesto MOTTA
Credit Value: 9
Taught classes: 42 hours
Exercise: 45 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Credit Value: 9
Taught classes: 42 hours
Exercise: 45 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Learning Objectives
The aim of the course is the knowledge of soil behaviour with respect to the applied loads
Course Structure
theoretical lessons end design examples
Detailed Course Content
Soil properties; principle of effective stress; Theory of seepage; One-dimensional consolidation theory; shear strength of soils; laboratory tests to determene shearh strength and soil deformability; choice of geotechnical parameters; Plastic equilibrium of soil; Rankine theory of active and passive earth pressure; Coulomb theory; retaining walls; bearing capacity of shallow and deep foundations; Slope stability
Textbook Information
Lancellotta Renato “ Geotecnica”. Ed. Zanichelli