Lectures related to Geomechanics: Basic Concepts

Geomechanics: Basic Concepts

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

Soil Shear Resistance and Failure Criteria

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

Unsaturated Soils: Water Retention and Mechanical Behavior

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

Structural Mechanics: Beam Bending and Boundary Conditions

Explores the moment-curvature relation for beams, emphasizing stress distribution and typical boundary conditions.

Critical State Concept

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

Critical State Concept: Unsaturated Soils

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

Geomechanics: Course Introduction

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

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.

Introduction to Structural Mechanics: Stress and Strain

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

Retaining Structures: Geomechanics

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

3D Linear Elasticity & Beams

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

Mechanics of Slender Structures: Elasticity & Buckling

Explores 3D elasticity, beam bending, and buckling phenomena in slender structures.

Solid Mechanics II + Material Models

Explores material models for elastic objects, including inverse shape optimization and hyperelasticity.

Axial Loading: Stress and Strain in Deformable Bodies

Covers axial loading, stress, strain, and their implications in deformable bodies.

Geomechanics: Suction and Shear Strength

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

Soil Mechanics: Plasticity and Failure Criteria

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

Introduction to Structural Mechanics

Covers the basics of structural mechanics, including static forces, stress, strain, and structural elements like bars, cables, trusses, and beams.

Linear Elasticity in 3D: Beam Bending

Covers linear elasticity in 3D, focusing on beam bending and stress-strain behavior of materials.

Structural Mechanics Fundamentals

Covers the fundamentals of structural mechanics, including materials, mechanics vocabulary, the Eiffel Tower, and the collapse of the Quebec Bridge.

Linear Elasticity (3D)

Explores linear elasticity in 3D, stress-strain relationship, isotropic materials, and shear stress importance.