Engineering Design: Geotechnical Engineering

The course is structured around five themes which are all concluded by a written exam at the Pass grade level. Instruction is in the form of lectures, exercises and laboratory work. Students who aspire to a higher grade are encouraged to carry out a project and/or a hand-in assignment as part of the assessment. The course covers the following themes: \- Basic geology - primarily soil types and geotechnical properties, geological maps and sampling and analysis methods. Soil mechanics, stress analysis, total, effective and shearing stress, pore pressure, deformation properties, method of coefficient application to geotechnology, the impact of ground water. \- Subsidence - deformation calculation of friction soil and cohesion soil, ground water problems in connection with constructions \- Bearing capacity - for friction and cohesion soil in terms of the Terzaghi bearing capacity equation for continuous and rectangular footing with centric and excentric load. \- Lateral earth pressure - active and passive thrust, sheeting, retaining walls, slope stability (not calculation). \- Piling - driven piles in friction and choesive soil, calculation of individual piles bearing capacity, pile groups with vertical and slanting piles, settlement calculation for pile groups.