SOIL MECHANICS: SELECTED TOPICS

1. Soil chemistry relevant to the engineering behaviour of soils / O.G.Ingles. 1.1 Soil its composition and structures. 1.2 Interatomic and intermolecular forces. 1.3 Water in clays. 1.4 Structures formation in soil clay. 1.5 Applications of fundamental theory to explanation of engineering soil behaviour. 2. Pore pressures in soils and rocks / I.K.Lee. 2.1 Effective stress law for saturated and saturated soils and rocks. 2.2 Pore-pressure measurements in saturated soils. 2.3 Analytical predictions of pore pressure. 3. Flow of water in saturated soil and rockfill / I.K.Lee. 3.1 Steady flow through and over porous media of large particle size. 3.2 Transient flow, general theory. 3.3 Transient flow, solutions for confined flow. 3.4 Transient flow, solutions for unconfined flow. 3.5 Analogue solutions. 3.6 Transient flow, consolidation. 4. Strength and deformation of soils and rocks / I.K.Lee. 4.1 Experimental stress-strain and strength relationship in triaxial test. 4.2 Strain predictions. 4.3 Stress- dilatancy theory. 4.4 Energy equations. 4.5 Failure criteria for cohesive and cohesionaless soils. 4.6 The brittle failure of unsaturated soils, stabilized soils and rocks. 5. Experimental techniques / J.R.Morgan. 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 Transducers. 5.3 Triaxial and other testing techniques. 5.4 Stress and strain measurements in field and model structures. 6. Theories of plasticity and the failure of soil masses / E.H.Davis. 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 Ideal cohesive-frictional material. 6.3 Limit theorems. 6.4 Stress fields in plastic regions. 6.5 Velocity fields in plastic regions. 6.6 Examples of solutions by limit analysis using discontinuous stress and velocity fields. 7. Stability analyses application to slopes, rigid and flexible retaining structures / I.K.Lee. 7.1 Introduction. 7.2 Statical relationships. 7.3 Boundary conditions-shape of failure surfaces. 7.4 Application of statical solutions. 7.5 Hansen's analysis. 7.6 Experimental measurements of earth pressure on rigid retaining structures. 7.7 Pressure on strutted sheetings in excavations. 8. Application of soil dynamics to foundations design / J.R.Morgan. 8.1 The problem of vibration foundations. 8.2 Theory of vibration. 8.3 Design of vibration foundations. 8.4 The effects of rate of load application on soil parameters. 8.5 Strength of clayey soils. 8.6 Strength of granular soils. 8.7 Discussion of strength behaviour. 9. Stability and settlement of deep foundations / J.R.Morgan. 9.1 Introduction. 9.2 Pier footings. 9.3 Piles and pile groups. 9.4 Analytical solutions for settlement of piles and pile groups. 9.5 Some practical aspects of file foundations. 9.6 Laterial loads on piles. 9.7 Buckling of axially loaded piles.

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