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Dec 21, 2024
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CE 5720 - Advanced Soil Mechanics
Water movement through soil, construction and interpretation of flow nets, stress distribution, compressibility and settlement of cohesive and noncohesive soil, consolidation theory, soil shear strength, lateral soil pressure, and slope stability.
Requisites: CE 3700
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to use the stress function approach to determine stresses in a soil mass due to different external loading types.
- Students will be able to explain how the classic theory of consolidation was formulated.
- Students will be able to apply Skempton’s theory of pore water pressure development to estimate pore water pressure in soils under different loading conditions.
- Students will be able to construct a flow net even in anisotropic and nonhomogeneous soil domains.
- Students will be able to analyze retaining walls and soil slopes.
- Students will be able to explain various theories related to soil shear strength.
- Students will be able to solve 1-D consolidation problems using a numerical solution technique.
- Students will be able to analyze 1-D and 2-D seepage flow problems using a numerical solution technique.
- Students will be able to explain the effective stress concept.
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