Advanced Soil Mechanics
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The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Soil Mechanics (subject code ME01076011) as prescribed for C(E · Semester 1 divides the course into 5 units, covering 10 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 (ME01076011)Unit 1 Stresses and Displacements in Soil
- Soil as elastic body – Concept of effective stress – Equations of Equilibrium in soil mass – Principal stresses and strains – Problems of plane stresses and strains – Stresses distributions by Boussinesq’s and Westergaard’s theory – Newmark’s influence chart – Influence of anisotropy on stress distribution – Application
Unit 2 Shear Resistance of soil
- Stress-Strain relationship in soil – Failure criteria – Mohr - Coulomb’s failure theory – Shear parameters under different drainage conditions – Pore pressure in saturated and unsaturated conditions – Analytical predictions of pore water pressure – stress dilatancy theory – results of plain strain shear tests – Forces on shear parameters – Stress path
- Drained and undrained stress path
- Stress path with respect to different initial state of the soil
- Stress path and its applications – Rheological models
Unit 3 Mechanics of Consolidation
- Phenomenon of consolidation – Terzaghi’s theory of one dimensional consolidation with mathematical solution – Method to determine pre compression history – Applications to estimate consolidation settlements – Introduction to creep and stress relaxation by rheological models
Unit 4 Flow through soils
- Basics of flow through soils – one dimensional
- radial and spherical flow cases – Seepage forces – Quick Sand and Piping – Flow nets of confined and unconfined flow by relaxation techniques – Phreatic surface by conformal mapping – Flow nets for anisotropic non homogenous soils
Unit 5 Earth Pressures
- Theories of earth pressure and retaining walls - Application of earth pressure theories – Soil Nailing and Anchors - excavations
- Diaphragm walls
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