Computational Geotechnics
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Computational Geotechnics Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Computational Geotechnics (subject code 3170620) as prescribed for Civil Engineering · Semester 7 divides the course into 5 units, covering 27 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3170620)Unit 1 Solution of Linear &Non-linear Equations
- Jacobi’s method
- Gauss Seidal method
- Successive over relaxation method
- False Position
- Successive approximation method
- Iterative methods
Unit 2 Finite Difference Method
- Two point Boundary value problems – Disichlet conditions
- Neumann conditions
- ordinary and partial differential equations
Unit 3 Discrete modeling
- discrete versus continuum modeling
- introduction to discrete element method (DEM)
- DEM solution procedure
- contact model and detect algorithms
Unit 4 Classical plasticity and soil behavior
- One-dimensional (1D) plasticity theory basics
- 1D frictional models
- initial boundary value problems
- integration algorithm
- General framework of classical plasticity
- elastic models and plastic models: Tresca
- Huber-von Mises
- Cam clay
- soil behavior and its relation to constitutive models
- FEM solutions
Unit 5 Numerical solutions
- General procedure
- examples : 1D consolidation
- Tri-axial test
- Flow Through Porous Media
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