Lectures related to State of Stress in Infrastructure

Road Pavement Design

Explores road pavement design, focusing on traffic impact and load calculations for pavement thickness.

Designing Road Pavements: Methods and Considerations

Explores the Swiss method of road pavement design, emphasizing fatigue design and material selection.

Burmester's Solutions: Multilayer Systems in Road Pavements

Explores Burmester's solutions for multilayer road pavements and the use of software for stress analysis.

Road Pavement Design: SN Determination

Explains the determination of structural number for road pavements and practical design applications.

Road Construction: Infrastructure and Superstructure

Explores road construction, emphasizing infrastructure and superstructure elements, soil improvement, and stabilization techniques.

Types of Bituminous Mixes

Explores various types of bituminous mixes and their applications in road construction and maintenance.

3D Linear Elasticity & Beams

Covers 3D linear elasticity, stress, strain, beams' behavior under loads, and torsion.

Designing Road Pavements: Frost Depth Estimation

Explains how to estimate frost depth in road pavements using empirical tables and adjust pavement design accordingly.

Foundation Layers in Road Construction

Explores the significance of foundation layers in road construction and the benefits of stabilizing different types of roads.

Traffic Estimation Procedures

Explores procedures for estimating equivalent standard axles over time based on traffic structure and vehicle classes, emphasizing the importance of accurate data for road infrastructure planning.

Soil Compaction and Road Construction

Explores soil compaction, road construction planning, earthwork organization, and road pavement design.

Principal Stresses in 2D and 3D

Explores principal stresses in 2D and 3D, deriving equations and understanding the relationship between shear and normal stresses.

Introduction to Structural Mechanics: Stress and Strain

Covers stress equilibrium, strain, and constitutive equations in 2D and 3D.

Stress & Strain in Structural Mechanics

Covers stress, strain, equilibrium, forces, deformation, constitutive law, and photoelasticity in structural mechanics.

Ellipsoidal Void Stress Concentrations

Explores stress concentrations on ellipsoidal void surfaces and the impact of inclusion on stress distribution.

Stress and Strain (beyond 1D)

Covers stress and strain beyond 1D, focusing on hyperstatic systems with pre-stressed elements and internal loads.

Stress and Strain in Structural Mechanics

Explores stress, strain, elasticity, fracture, and equilibrium in structural mechanics.

Stress and Strain: Generalization to 3D

Covers stress equilibrium, strain, and the generalization of stress to 3D, introducing Hooke's Law and analyzing structures with axial loads.

Welcome Session: MAN Semester Presentation

Introduces the MAN semester, emphasizing perseverance, course guidance, stress management, and support services available at EPFL.

Stress and Strain: Real vs Nominal

Explores real and nominal strain rates, stress, deformation, and force in materials testing.