Course Details

Selected Chapters of Geotechnics

Academic Year 2024/25

BFB004 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-SI / S Summer Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

summer

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 to the subject (terminology, case studies). 2. Types of geomaterials (soils, rocks, light materials, geosynthetics) and their properties. 3. Mathematical modeling in geotechnics. 4. Stiffness and strength of soils. 5. Constitutive models – elasticity and perfect plasticity. 6. Constitutive models – plasticity with hardening. 7. Shallow foundations. 8. Pile and combined fundations. 9. Retaining structures. 10. Underground structures. 11. Monitoring in geotechnics.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Basic tasks in geotechnics and their solutions. 2. Determination of properties geomaterials. 3. Exercise in laboratory – oedometric test. 4. Exercise in laboratory – triaxial test (CD). 5. Exercise in laboratory – permeability test. 6. Evaluation of laboratory tests. 7. Shallow foundations. 8. Pile and combined fundations. 9. Retaining structures. 10. Underground structures. 11. Credits.