Advanced Soil Mechanics

Contact persons: Dr.-Ing. Jan Machaček, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hauke Zachert

Frequency: every winter semester

Language: English

Academic achievement: (oral) examination

Recommended prerequisites: Geotechnics I (13-C0-M005/3) and Geotechnics II (13-C0-M002)

For further information, please refer to TUCaN or the module handbook and the study and examination schedule.

The teaching and examination content of the Advanced Soil Mechanics module includes:

Stress: effective stress, stress invariants and principal stresses; Critical State Soil Mechanics: dilatancy, failure, stress- and density-dependent stiffness; Cyclic/Dynamic: small strain stiffness, stiffness degradation curve, strain accumulation, liquefaction; Unsaturated soils: unsaturated soil behavior, soil-water-retention curve, permeability, stiffness and strength increase; Constitutive Modelling: role of constitutive models in geotechnical engineering, modelling frameworks, Mohr-Coulomb, Modified Cam Clay, Hardening Soil, introduction to Hypoplasticity