Computationals geomechanics
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The official GTU curriculum for Computationals geomechanics (subject code 3724314) as prescribed for C(E · Semester 2 divides the course into 7 units, covering 28 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 (3724314)Unit 1 Solution of Non-linear Equations
- False Position
- Successive approximation method
- Iterative methods
Unit 2 Solution of Linear Equations
- Jacobi’s method
- Gauss Seidal method
- Successive over relaxation method
Unit 3 Finite Difference Method
- Two point Boundary value problems – Disichlet conditions
- Neumann conditions
- ordinary and partial differential equations
Unit 4 Discrete modelling
- discrete versus continuum modelling
- introduction to discrete element method (DEM)
- DEM solution procedure
- contact model and detect algorithms
Unit 5 One–dimensional (1D) plasticity
- Plasticity theory basics
- 1D frictional models
- initial boundary value problems
- integration algorithm
- FEM solution
Unit 6 Classical plasticity and soil behaviour
- General framework of classical plasticity
- elastic models
- and plastic models
- Huber-von Mises
- Cam clay
- soil behaviour and its relation to constitutive models
Unit 7 Numerical solutions
- General procedure
- examples : 1D consolidation
- triaxial test
- Flow Through Porous Media
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