Advanced Soil Mechanics
- Soil formation and mineralogy, Interaction of soil particles, Soil structure and fabric
- Effective stress, Compressibility of soil particles, Intergranular forces
- Terzaghi`s equation of effective stress, Effective stress in unsaturated soils
- Darcy`s law, Soils permeability, Laplace`s equations in 2D and 3D, Flownet for anisotropic and nonhomogeneous soils
- Pore water pressure parameters, Mohr Coulomb criterion, Laboratory tests for investigating soil behavior
- The concept of stress path, Stress path in different loading conditions (part 1)
- Stress path in different loading conditions (part 2)
- Shear strength of cohesive and cohesionless soils
- Clay sensitivity and thixotropy, Reviewing the principles of one dimensional consolidation
- Application of the finite difference method in consolidation, Effects of construction period
- Pre-loading, Vertical drains, 3D Consolidation equation
- Introduction to the critical state soil mechanic, Isotropic compression, Critical state line
- Drained and Undrained planes, Roscoe surface, Hvorslev surface
- The complete state boundary surface, Drained and Undrained planes in the complete state boundary surface
- Introducing the problematic soils