CE I9200 Advanced Soil Mechanics
Elasticity, plasticity, and yielding of soils. Conduction phenomena in soils. Electrokinetic, electro-osmosis, and electrochemical effects. Elastoplastic constituitive models. Critical-state theories. Cam clay model. Peak and residual soil strength. Stress paths. Application to finite-element analysis. Geotechnical centrifuge modeling.
Contact Hours
3 hr./wk.