Course Details

Selected Articles of Geomechanics

Academic Year 2025/26

NFB019 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIK Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

Ing. Jiří Boštík, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Geotechnics

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295886

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.