The course is aimed at students who are already familiar with basic concepts of soil mechanics (mainly civil engineering and engineering geology students). However, a substantial recap will be done, to refresh the main concepts. Therefore, students without a background in soil mechanics are also welcome to join.
The course provides full online access to students joining through virtual mobility: broadcasted lectures and seminars, online material for self-study and interactive learning (e.g., online quizzes), multimedia material, tutorials and exercises using technical software, Q&A sessions.
We will use Google Classroom and YouTube to host the materials, and there will be both synchronous (live) and asynchronous lectures to allow students to attend at their own pace and schedule (to overcome schedule collisions).
The course will focus on a number of key topics in soil mechanics, also with the involvement, through online lectures/seminars, of external experts in specific topics.
Among the key topics of the course we will deal with critical state soil mechanics and the basis of constitutive modelling (also through interactive online visualisations), unsaturated soil mechanics and the concept of soil water retention curve, earth pressures and retaining structures, slope stability, coupled processes in soils, frozen soils and thermal geomechanics.
Last update: Scaringi Gianvito, Dr., Ph.D. (15.01.2024)
The course is aimed at students who are already familiar with basic concepts of soil mechanics (mainly civil engineering and engineering geology students). However, a substantial recap will be done, to refresh the main concepts. Therefore, students without a background in soil mechanics are also welcome to join.
The course provides full online access to students joining through virtual mobility: broadcasted lectures and seminars, online material for self-study and interactive learning (e.g., online quizzes), multimedia material, tutorials and exercises using technical software, Q&A sessions.
We will use Google Classroom and YouTube to host the materials, and there will be both synchronous (live) and asynchronous lectures to allow students to attend at their own pace and schedule (to overcome schedule collisions).
The course will focus on a number of key topics in soil mechanics, also with the involvement, through online lectures/seminars, of external experts in specific topics.
Among the key topics of the course we will deal with critical state soil mechanics and the basis of constitutive modelling (also through interactive online visualisations), unsaturated soil mechanics and the concept of soil water retention curve, earth pressures and retaining structures, slope stability, coupled processes in soils, frozen soils and thermal geomechanics.
Last update: Scaringi Gianvito, Dr., Ph.D. (15.01.2024)
Literature -
Presentations, videos and other digital material will be shared during the course.
Last update: Scaringi Gianvito, Dr., Ph.D. (06.12.2022)
Presentations, videos and other digital material will be shared during the course.
Last update: Scaringi Gianvito, Dr., Ph.D. (06.12.2022)
Requirements to the exam -
Exercises/quizzes during the course, final quiz and essay/videoclip.
Last update: Scaringi Gianvito, Dr., Ph.D. (06.12.2022)
Exercises/quizzes during the course, final quiz and essay/videoclip.
Last update: Scaringi Gianvito, Dr., Ph.D. (06.12.2022)
Syllabus -
- Recap on continuum mechanics and hydraulics - Fundamentals of unsaturated soil mechanics - Critical state soil mechanics and basics of constitutive modelling - Earth pressures and retaining structures - Foundations - Slope stability - Coupled processes in soils - Frozen soils - Thermal geomechanics
Last update: Scaringi Gianvito, Dr., Ph.D. (06.12.2022)
- Recap on continuum mechanics and hydraulics - Fundamentals of unsaturated soil mechanics - Critical state soil mechanics and basics of constitutive modelling - Earth pressures and retaining structures - Foundations - Slope stability - Coupled processes in soils - Frozen soils - Thermal geomechanics
Last update: Scaringi Gianvito, Dr., Ph.D. (06.12.2022)
Entry requirements -
Ideally, you need to be already familiar with basic concepts of soils mechanics, but we will do a substantial recap.
If you do not have a background in soil mechanics, you are still welcome to join!
Last update: Scaringi Gianvito, Dr., Ph.D. (06.12.2022)
Ideally, you need to be already familiar with basic concepts of soils mechanics, but we will do a substantial recap.
If you do not have a background in soil mechanics, you are still welcome to join!
Last update: Scaringi Gianvito, Dr., Ph.D. (06.12.2022)
