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.