Course Details
Subject {L-T-P / C} : CE6101 : Advanced Soil Mechanics { 3-0-0 / 3}
Subject Nature : Theory
Coordinator : Prof. Suresh Prasad Singh
Syllabus
Module 1 Introduction: (8 Hours)
Origin of soil and its types, mineralogy, and structure of clay minerals, X-ray and Differential Thermal analysis, Structure of coarse-grained soil, the behavior of granular and cohesive soils with respect to their water content.
Module 2 Flow and consolidation (10 Hours)
Steady-State flow, 2D and 3D seepage, Transient flow. Compressibility and rate of consolidation, one, two, and three-dimensional consolidation theories. Sand drains.
Module 3 Strength Properties (12 Hours)
Shear strength: Basic concepts, Shear strength characteristics of cohesive and cohesionless soils, Mohr-Coulomb theory, Mohr’s circle, Stress path, UU, CU, and CD tests, Estimation of pore water pressure, Dilatancy, Critical void ratio, and Liquefaction of soil. Analysis of critical conditions for geotechnical structures.
Module 4 Failure Theories (8 Hours)
Elastic and plastic analysis of soil: Failure theories applicable to particulate materials, Constitutive relationships of soil.
Module 5 Critical state soil mechanics: (6 Hours)
Introduction, Critical State Line, Hvorslev Surface, Yield Surfaces.
Course Objectives
- Identification and characterization of different types of soil, their engineering behaviour and propose costitutive models to represent their behaviour
- * Evaluation of compressibility characteristics of soil and estimation of settlement
- * Evaluation of strength parameters of soil and factors influencing the same
- * Understanding the failure mechanism and modelling the soil behaviour
Course Outcomes
At the end of the course, the students will able to: <br />1. Differentiate among various types of soil, their engineering behavior <br />2. Identify the critical conditions of Geotechnical structures <br />3. Propose the constitutive models to representing their behavior
Essential Reading
- R F Scott, Principles of Soil Mechanics, Addison & Wesley
- T. W. Lambe and R. V. Whitman, Soil Mechanics, Wiley Eastern
Supplementary Reading
- B M Das, Advanced Soil Mechanics, Taylor and Francis
- Mitchell, James K, Fundamentals of Soil Behaviour, John Wiley and Sons