Course Details
Selected Articles of Geomechanics
Academic Year 2024/25
CF055 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 and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Introduction, classification of soils, properties of soils.
2. Capacity and settlement of shallow foundations.
3. Reinforced soil structure - basic knowledge about mechanical behaviour.
4. Experiences of design reinforced soil structures.
5. Stress state and deformation analysis of deep excavation: beam models.
6. Stress state and deformation analysis of deep excavation: planar models.
7. Deep excavation behaviour during technological process of excavation.
8. Mechanics of underground structures.
9. Response of rock surroundings due to tunnelling, surface settlement due to excavation.
10. Effects of groundwater on the stability of the structures.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Classification of soils, properties of soils.
2. Capacity and settlement of shallow foundations.
3. Reinforced soil structure - basic knowledge about mechanical behaviour.
4. Experiences of design reinforced soil structures.
5. Stress state and deformation analysis of deep excavation: beam models.
6. Stress state and deformation analysis of deep excavation: planar models.
7. Deep excavation behaviour during technological process of excavation.
8. Mechanics of underground structures.
9. Response of rock surroundings due to tunnelling, surface settlement due to excavation.
10. Effects of groundwater on the stability of the structures.