Theoretical Soil Mechanics

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Stress conditions for failure of soils; earth pressures and retaining walls; arching in soils; theories for elastic and plastic deformations of soil masses; theory of bearing capacity; theories for stresses in semi-infinite and layered elastic solids; theory of elastic subgrade reaction.