STABILITA' DEI PENDII E OPERE DI SOSTEGNO
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: GLENDA ABATEExpected Learning Outcomes
The course aims to provide knowledge about the stability conditions of natural slopes and excavation fronts and the design of retaining structures.
Course Structure
Frontal lessons through PowerPoint presentations. Seminars in collaboration with geotechnical companies and/or engineers, teachers from other national and international universities. Exercises in the classroom.
A technical visit to a construction site in Sicily is planned to increase the student's knowledge of the topics discussed in the classroom and bring the student closer to the world of work and practice.
Required Prerequisites
Geotechnics.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance at lessons is strongly recommended, as it is consistent with the learning objectives, which aim to encourage a gradual learning, the active participation of the student in the classroom, and a dialogue between teachers and students.
Detailed Course Content
Types of landlides; causes and remedial works; stabilizing work: trence drainage; wells; tubular drains; piles to stabilize slopes. Methods of Analysis of stability of slopes; slope of finite height; infinite slope; static and seismic analysis; plane and rotational mechanism of failure; methods of slices; Fellenius, Bishop, Janbu, Bell approaches; progressive failure; three-dimensional slope analysis. Retaining walls, Earth retaining walls; cantilever and anchored diaphragm walls; design according to European and Italian codes.
Textbook Information
· Lancellotta. Geotecnica. Ed. Zanichelli
· Bowles. Foundations analysis and design, Mc. Graw Hill.
· Farulla. Analisi di Stabilità dei Pendii. Hevelius (Napoli).
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slope stability | see reference texts |
| 2 | Retaining structures | see reference texts |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Verification of learning of the course contents will take place through:
1) Ongoing tests, by short individual written questions and for which a short answer is required. These tests will take place in the classroom in the presence of all students at the end of each "macro-topic". A score will be assigned to these tests, which will be counted at the end of the learning verification process.
2) Exercises, signed by the teacher, which will be carried out during the course.
3) A final oral exam.
It is compulsory to book the oral exam you intend to take; the reservation must be made exclusively through the student portal of the University of Catania website, within the foreseen period. Participation in the ongoing tests (Point N.1) is not compulsory, but strongly recommended.