Lectures related to Geotechnical Investigations and Tests

Geotechnical Studies: Preliminary Investigations

Explores the significance of preliminary geotechnical studies and the tools used for data collection.

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

Covers the Modified Cam Clay Model, stress paths, pore pressure, settlements, and applications in geotechnical problems.

Landslide Hazard: A Resilient Future

Discusses landslide hazard, factors influencing landslides, classification, impact, and risk reduction.

Pile Groups: Bearing Capacity

Explores pile groups' bearing capacity in various soils and their design considerations.

Computational Geomechanics: Meshing, Groundwater Flow, and Constitutive Behavior

Covers mesh generation, groundwater flow, and constitutive behavior modeling in computational geomechanics.

Geotechnical Engineering: Projects and Case Studies

Explores geotechnical engineering projects, case studies, and factors influencing project outcomes.

Rankine Method: Soil Pressure Calculations

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

Geotechnical Foundations: Settlement and Consolidation

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

Slope Stability Analysis: Methods and Software

Covers slope stability analysis methods, including Bishop, Janbu, and Morgenstern-Price methods, and introduces the finite element method for analyzing soil structures.

Numerical Methods: Euler and Crank-Nicolson

Covers Euler and Crank-Nicolson methods for solving differential equations.

Numerics for Fluids, Structures and Electromagnetics: Projects Rules

Students in 'Numerics for Fluids, Structures and Electromagnetics' must complete projects individually or in pairs, following specific rules and evaluation criteria.

Retaining Walls: Design and Stability

Explores the design and stability of various types of retaining walls in geotechnical engineering.

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.

Numerical Modelling of the Atmosphere

Focuses on numerical modelling of atmospheric processes to predict weather and climate phenomena, covering key concepts and methods.

Soil Shear Resistance and Failure Criteria

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

Numerics for Fluids, Structures & Electromagnetics

Covers numerics for fluids, structures, and electromagnetics, emphasizing the importance of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions.

Numerical Differentiation: Richardson Extrapolation

Covers Richardson extrapolation for numerical differentiation to reduce error.

Critical State Concept: Unsaturated Soils

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