Lectures related to Soil Deformation and Settlement Calculation

Soil Mechanics: Oedometer Testing and Soil Deformation

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

Soil Mechanics: Plasticity and Failure Criteria

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

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.

Critical State Concept

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

Oedometer Test: Principles and Analysis

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

Soil Deformation: Construction Interruptions and Settlement Assessment

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

Soil Shear Resistance and Failure Criteria

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

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.

Retaining Structures: Geomechanics

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

Unsaturated Soils: Water Retention and Mechanical Behavior

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

Geotechnical Foundations: Settlement and Consolidation

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

Consolidation - Drained/Undrained

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

States of Stress and Mechanical Behavior

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

Mixed Loading in Piles - Reaction Module Method

Introduces the reaction module method for analyzing piles under mixed loads.

Geomechanics: Course Introduction

Introduces the study of geomechanics, covering the behavior of soils, rocks, and concrete in civil engineering applications.

Rankine Method: Soil Pressure Calculations

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

Settlement of Shallow Foundations

Explores settlement of shallow foundations, including types, causes, differential settlements, consolidation phenomena, and estimation methods.

Geomechanics: Suction and Shear Strength

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

Plasticity: Constitutive Modelling

Explores plasticity in geomechanics, covering yield criteria, models, and practical applications.