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93603 Soil Mechanics
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Danish title: Geoteknik
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| Type: Å, Language: DDD |
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Credit points:
5 point |
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| | | Previous course: D3031, FU 31 |
| Offered by:
Department of Applied Civil and Environmental Engineering
(IABM) |
| Prerequisite: 93251. 93552 |
| Recommended semester:
3rd semester |
| Examination:
Written exam
(13 point scale
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| Contact person: |
Gunnar Bagge, IABM, Building 373, Tel. +45 4525 5076 |
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| Aim: To enable the student to conduct elementary analysis of geotechnical seepage-, deformation-, and bearing capacity problems in order to design the most common foundation structures. |
| Contents: Basic concepts, soil classification and description. The principle of effective stress, capillarity. Seepage, flow nets, dewatering. Consolidation theory. Compressibility of soil, oedometer testing. Strength of soil, triaxial and vane testing, short and long term strength of clay. Elementary theory of plasticity. Bearing capacity analysis for footings. |
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