Course Details
Geotechnical Laboratory
Academic Year 2024/25
CF054 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Physical - index tests.
2. Laboratory testing of soil permeability.
3. Laboratory tests to determine the deformation parameters - part 1.
4. Laboratory tests to determine the deformation parameters - part 2.
5. Laboratory tests to determine the shear parameters - part 1.
6. Laboratory tests to determine the shear parameters - part 2.
7. Testing of soils in the range of small to very small strain
8. Selected material models versus laboratory tests.
9. New trends in laboratory tests.
10. Geochemistry - laboratory tests.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Physical index tests.
2. Determination of permeability of sand (permeameter).
3. Compression of soil - 1D (oedometer).
4. Shear box test.
5. CID triaxial tests (sand). Credit.