Lectures related to Soil mechanics

Critical State Concept

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

Unsaturated Soils: Water Retention and Mechanical Behavior

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

Critical State Concept: Unsaturated Soils

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

Soil Shear Resistance and Failure Criteria

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

Consolidation - Drained/Undrained

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

Retaining Structures: Geomechanics

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

Soil Mechanics: Oedometer Testing and Soil Deformation

Explores soil mechanics, oedometer testing, and soil deformation principles, including Young's modulus and overconsolidation effects.

Thermo-Mechanical Behavior of Geomaterials: Applications and Modeling

Covers the thermo-mechanical behavior of geomaterials and its applications in engineering, emphasizing the impact of temperature on geomechanical properties and modeling.

Mechanical Tests in Soil Mechanics

Covers the organization and types of mechanical tests in soil mechanics, including laboratory and in situ tests.

States of Stress and Mechanical Behavior

Introduces states of stress, effective stress principles, consolidation equations, and compressibility of fluids and solids.

Soil Mechanics: Plasticity and Failure Criteria

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

Soil Mechanics: Characteristics and Classification

Explores soil characteristics, water content, density, plasticity, and classification methods in geotechnical engineering.

Hydraulic Soil Calculations: Flow Networks + Dupuit Approximation

Covers hydraulic soil properties, flow networks, and the Dupuit approximation.

Soil Deformation: Construction Interruptions and Settlement Assessment

Explores soil deformation, construction interruptions, settlement assessment, and overconsolidation in soil mechanics and underground flows.

Geotechnical Foundations: Settlement and Consolidation

Explores geotechnical foundations, settlement, and consolidation, covering limit states, differential settlements, dissipation of overpressures, and non-linear soil behavior.

Rankine Method: Soil Pressure Calculations

Explains the Rankine method for calculating soil pressures in geotechnical engineering.

Geomechanics: Basic Concepts

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

Oedometer Test: Principles and Analysis

Explores the principles and procedures of the oedometer test, including sample preparation, data interpretation, and soil property determination.

Settlement of Piles

Discusses soil bearing capacity, pile settlement methods, and Mindlin's formulas integration.

Hydraulic Soil - Groundwater Lowering - Renard Hydraulic Calculations

Covers hydraulic soil rupture, steady-state calculations, and Renard hydraulic calculations for groundwater lowering and soil bearing capacity issues.