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SCHOOL OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Session 2 2013 CVEN 4202 Advanced Topics in Geotechnical Engineering Subject coordinator lecturer: Dr Adrian Russell Other lecturer: Dr Babak Shahbodagh COURSE DETAILS Lectures and tutorials: Thursday 9:00-11:00 Weeks 1-12 Room: Quad G032 11:00-13:00 Weeks 1-12 Room: MatSc G11 Note there WILL NOT BE any teaching in week 6, and there WILL BE teaching in week 9. If a student has to be away in week 9 then they should contact Dr Russell. OBJECTIVES To understand the basic principles of critical state soil mechanics and soil plasticity, and use elastic-plastic constitutive models (Mohr-Coulomb, Cam-Clay, Bounding Surface Plasticity) to simulate soil stress-strain behaviour. Apply stress field analysis in solving simple geotechnical problems. Identify fractal patterns in soils and apply them to understand soil mechanics. Model soil-structure interaction using simple hand calculations and the commercial software PLAXIS. Introduce the basic principles of the Finite Element Method and apply the method to coupled flow-deformation analysis of geotechnical problems. TEXT BOOK None prescribed. REFERENCES • Muir Wood, D. “Soil Behaviour and Critical State Soil Mechanics”, Cambridge University Press, 1992. • Muir Wood, D. “Geotechnical modelling”, Spon Press, 2004. • Lambe and R.V. Whitman, Soil mechanics, John Wiley Sons, 1969. • Atkinson and P.L. Bransby, The mechanics of soils : An introduction to critical state soil mechanics, McDraw-Hill, 1978. • Holtz and W.D. Kovacs, An introduction to geotechnical engineering, Prentice Hall, 1981. • Potts D.M., Zdravkovic L