Course Details

Basic of Geotechnics

Academic Year 2025/26

BFA012 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-EVB Summer Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

Ing. Juraj Chalmovský, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Geotechnics

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289986

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to soil mechanics, soil index properties.
  • 2. Basics of geomechanics – stress and strain in soil; Mohr´s circle; principle of effective stress, mechanical behavior of materials - elasticity, plasticity, failure; drained, undrained conditions.
  • 3. Compressibility of soils.
  • 4. Time dependent soil behavior, permeability, consolidation.
  • 5. Shear strength of soils.
  • 6. Basics of thermodynamics, heat transfer through soils.
  • 7. Thermo-mechanical behaviour of soils
  • 8. Introduction to the special foundation engineering.
  • 9. Shallow foundations.
  • 10. Deep foundations.
  • 11. Retaining structures.
  • 12. Energy geo-structures.
  • 13. Thermomechanical behaviour of energy geo-structures.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Index properties of soils. Characteristics of phase relationship in the soil.
  • 2. Effective stress. Geostatic stress.
  • 3. Compressibility, consolidation – parameters evaluation.
  • 4. Laboratory of soil mechanics – mechanical properties.
  • 5. Shear strength of soils.
  • 6. Stress in soil due to surface load.
  • 7. Settlement calculation.
  • 8. Individual consultations.
  • 9. Bearing capacity of shallow foundation.
  • 10. Bearing capacity of deep foundation – ultimate limit state.
  • 11. Bearing capacity of deep foundations – serviceability limit state.
  • 12. Earth pressures. Design of unsupported retaining wall.
  • 13. Individual consultations. Credit.