Course10510500360 lectures
Strength and Deformation Characteristics of Soils
Prof. Paramita Bhattacharya · IIT Kharagpur
About
The course is designed for the PG students in Geotechnical Engineering as core subject and UG students and research scholars of Civil Engineering interested in advanced level of Geotechnical Engineering. The practicing engineers in the field of Civil and Geotechnical Engineering and academicians engaged in teaching professions in different engineering colleges may also benefit from this course. The objective of the course is to understand the fundamentals of behavior of soils. For this purpose, continuum mechanics, soil compressibility and consolidation theories of soils, strength behavior of soils under different loading and drainage conditions in light of classical soil mechanics and critical state soil mechanics will be discussed. Also the elastic and plastic deformation, concept of soil hardening, yield surface, associated and non-associated flow rule will be presented and discussed during this course.
Intended audience: UG, PG and PhD level students and practicing engineers in the field of Geotechnical Engineering
Prerequisites: No pre-requisites for PG students and PhD students. Geotechnical Engineering-I/Soil Mechanics (UG) is the pre-requisites for UG students,
Lectures
Week 1
- Lecture 01: Introduction to Tensor Analysis in Geomechanics
- Lecture 02 : Kronecker Delta & Transformation of Coordinates
- Lecture 03 : Definition of Cartesian Tensors
- Lecture 04 : Numerical Problems on Cartesian Tensors
- Lecture 05 : Numerical Problems on Tensor Analysis in Geomechanics
Week 2
- Lecture 06 : Fundamentals of Stress Analysis
- Lecture 07 : Principal Stresses and Stress Invariants
- Lecture 08 : Stress Deviation Tensor and Its Invariants
- Lecture 09 : Haigh-Westergaard’s Stress Space
- Lecture 10 : Numerlcal Problems
Week 3
- Lecture 11 : Introduction to Yield and Failure criteria
- Lecture 12 : Tresca and von Mises Yield Criteria
- Lecture 13 : Mohr-Coulomb Failure Criteria
- Lecture 14 : Drucker-Prager Failure Criterion
- Lecture 15 : Flow Rules
Week 4
- Lecture 16 : Stress State in Soil and Mohr Circle of Stress
- Lecture 17 : Triaxial Compression Test and Determination of Shear Strength Parameters
- Lecture 18 : Consolidated Triaxial Compression Test
- Lecture 19 : Drained and Undrained Behavior of Sands and Clays
- Lecture 20 : Numerical Problems
Week 5
- Lecture 21 : Determination of Shear Strength and Skempton's Pore Pressure Parameters
- Lecture 22 : Advanced Numerical Problems on Skempton’s Pore Pressure Equation
- Lecture 23 : Rowe's Stress–Dilatancy Theory
- Lecture 24 : Strength and Dilatancy of Granular Soils– Bolton’s Equations
- Lecture 25 : Modern Developments in Stress–Dilatancy Theory
Week 6
- Lecture 26 : Introduction to Stress Paths and Stress Path Parameters
- Lecture 27 : Stress Paths in Unconsolidated Undrained (UU) Triaxial Tests
- Lecture 28 : Stress Paths in Consolidated Undrained (CU) Triaxial Tests
- Lecture 29 : Stress Paths in Consolidated Drained (CD) Triaxial Tests
- Lecture 30 : Comparative Behavior of Drained and Undrained Tests
Week 7
- Lecture 31 : MIT Method for Stress Path Representation
- Lecture 32 : Failure lines in s′- t Space
- Lecture 33 : Stress Paths of Normally Consolidated and Overconsolidated Clays
- Lecture 34 : Stress Paths of Dense and Loose Sands
- Lecture 35 : Interpretation and Engineering Applications of Stress Paths
Week 8
- Lecture 36 : Introduction to Critical State Soil Mechanics
- Lecture 37 : Critical-State Line and Parameters
- Lecture 38 : Critical State of Normally Consolidated Clay
- Lecture 39 : Critical State of Overconsolidated Clay
- Lecture 40 : Comparative Behavior and Numerical Interpretation
Week 9
- Lecture 41 : State Boundary Surface in Critical State Soil Mechanics
- Lecture 42 : Roscoe and Hvorslev State Boundary Surfaces
- Lecture 43 : Drained and Undrained Loading Paths on State Boundary Surfaces
- Lecture 44 : Critical Void Ratio, State Parameter, and Sand Behavior
- Lecture 45 : Applications and Numerical Problems on State Boundary Surfaces and Sand Dilatancy
Week 10
- Lecture 46 :Soil Compression and Consolidation
- Lecture 47 : Physical Mechanism of Consolidation
- Lecture 48 : Terzaghi’s One-Dimensional Consolidation Theory
- Lecture 49 : Two- and Three-Dimensional Consolidation Theories
- Lecture 50 : Numerical Problems
Week 11
- Lecture 51 : Primary Consolidation Settlement
- Lecture 52 : Secondary Consolidation Settlement
- Lecture 53 : Consolidation Settlement of Layered Soil Deposits
- Lecture 54 : Determination of coefficient of consolidation
- Lecture 55 : Constant Rate of Strain Consolidation Test
Week 12
Syllabus and materials
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Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Kharagpur
- Department
- Civil Engineering
- Teacher
- Prof. Paramita Bhattacharya
- Level
- Graduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Engineering
- Source
- NPTEL
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- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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