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Explores drained and undrained soil conditions, laboratory tests, and the significance of effective stress and pore pressure.

Critical State Concept

Explores the critical state concept in geomechanics, covering stress paths, shear strength, and soil behavior under different stress conditions.

Soil Shear Resistance and Failure Criteria

Explains the Von Mises, Drucker-Prager, Mohr-Coulomb, and Cam-Clay failure criteria in soil mechanics.

Critical State Concept: Unsaturated Soils

Explores the critical state concept in geomechanics, focusing on unsaturated soils and Terzaghi's effective stress validity.

Geomechanics: Basic Concepts

Introduces basic concepts of geomechanics, stress paths, effective stress, and shear strength analysis through laboratory testing.

Unsaturated Soils: Water Retention and Mechanical Behavior

Explores unsaturated soil behavior, emphasizing water retention and mechanical properties.

Geomechanics: Suction and Shear Strength

Covers suction, shear strength, desiccation consequences, and retaining structures in unsaturated soils.

Retaining Structures: Geomechanics

Explores the design and analysis of retaining structures, lateral earth pressure, and unsaturated soils.

Permeability and Direct Shear: TP2

Covers the principles and procedures of variable load permeability testing.

Shear Behavior: Evaluation and Laws

Explores material behavior in shear, shear forces, stress, equilibrium, shear laws, tension/compression, plane shear, shear rate, constrained slip, and shear strength.

Geomechanics: Basic Concepts

Introduces basic geomechanics concepts, stress paths, and the critical state concept.

Soil Mechanics: Plasticity and Failure Criteria

Explores soil mechanics, plasticity, failure criteria, and soil behavior models.

Metal Forming Processes: Deep Drawing and Cutting Techniques

Covers advanced metal forming processes, focusing on deep drawing and cutting techniques, including their mechanics and applications in manufacturing.

Capstan Phenomenon: Understanding Force Amplification

Explores the capstan phenomenon, showcasing how force amplification enables lifting heavy masses with minimal effort.

Design and Verification of a Bearing Slab

Covers the design and verification process of a bearing slab for concrete bridges, including methods for calculating bending moments and shear force.

Snow Mechanics: Avalanche Release and Weak Layers

Explores snow mechanics, avalanche release, weak snow layers, deformation, and failure criteria.

Snow Mechanics: Avalanches

Explores snow mechanics, focusing on avalanches, weak layers, failure initiation, and stability tests.

Snow Mechanics: Weak Layers and Failure Initiation

Explores the strength of weak snow layers, rate dependency, stability tests, and slab avalanche release processes.

In-plane behaviour: URM walls

Explores the seismic behavior and strength capacity of URM walls, including effective stiffness and drift capacity.

Machinability and Cutting Tools

Explores machinability, tool wear mechanisms, tool selection based on material properties, and the use of coated tools and advanced materials in cutting technology.