Advanced Soil Mechanics

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: CEE 345. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Deformation and strength of soils; total and effective stress; drained and undrained behavior. Constitutive description: elastic-plastic, hardening/softening, Cam clay model, critical states. Stress paths, and testing of soils. Modeling of reinforced soil: multi-component model and homogenization approach; fiber-reinforced soil. Theorems of limit analysis; applications in stability assessment.