Course Details
Earth Structures
Academic Year 2024/25
NFA015 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIK Winter Semester 1st year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 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 of Earth structures.
2. Mechanical properties and specifics of soil/rock material, secondary materials, light weight fills.
3. Mechanical properties and specifics of soil/rock material, secondary materials, light weight fills (contin.).
4. General principles of designing earth structures – settlements and stability analysis.
5. Ground improvement – Preloading, Vacuum Consolidation, Vertical drains.
6. Ground improvement – Deep Compaction, Vibroflotation.
7. Ground improvement – Deep Soil Mixing.
8. Ground improvement – Stone Columns.
9. Geosynthetics – properties; separation, filtration, drainage and erosion function.
10. Geosynthetics – reinforcement function.
11. Nail structure.
12. Gabions.
13. Monitoring of Earth structures.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Determination of strength parameters of geomaterials.
2. Determination of stifness and technological parameters of geomaterials.
3. Design of embankment (settlement analysis).
4. Design of embankment with using software (stability analysis).
5. Design of prefabricate vertical drains.
6. Design of mechanically stabilized earth wall.
7. Credits.