GEOTECHNICS
Academic Year 2015/2016 - 3° Year
Teaching Staff: Ernesto MOTTA
Credit Value: 9
Scientific field: ICAR/07 - Geotechnics
Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
Taught classes: 54 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Credit Value: 9
Scientific field: ICAR/07 - Geotechnics
Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
Taught classes: 54 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
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