DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE
Bachelor's Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Academic Year 2017/2018 - 3° Year
Bachelor's Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Academic Year 2017/2018 - 3° Year
GEOTECHNICS
ICAR/07 - 9 CFU - 2° Semester
Teaching Staff
ERNESTO MOTTALearning Objectives
The aim of the course is the knowledge of soil behaviour with respect to the applied loads
Detailed Course Content
Soil properties; principle of effective stress; Theory of seepage; One-dimensional consolidation theory; shear strength of soils; laboratory tests to determene shearh strength and soil deformability; choice of geotechnical parameters; Plastic equilibrium of soil; Rankine theory of active and passive earth pressure; Coulomb theory; retaining walls; bearing capacity of shallow and deep foundations; Slope stability
Textbook Information
Lancellotta Renato “ Geotecnica”. Ed. Zanichelli
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