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.