Geotechnics [ LAUCE2171 ]
5.0 crédits ECTS
45.0 h + 15.0 h
1q
| Teacher(s) |
Holeyman Alain ;
Thimus Jean-Francois ;
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| Language |
French
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Place
of the course |
Louvain-la-Neuve
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| Main themes |
Provide engineering students advanced design methods to solve geotechnical problems connected with civil engineering projects.
Knowledge:
- Soil-structure interaction under static conditions
- Advanced analysis of slope stability, design of foundations and soil retaining structures
- Foundation and soil improvement technologies
Know-how:
- Integrate basic engineering disciplines (soil mechanics, constitutive modeling, statics of structures) to analyze interactive stability of soil and structures
- Assess feasibility and select best available design method to study foundation problems, select appropriate design parameters and most appropriate technology to solve a foundation problem
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| Aims |
Give to the students the expertise of knowledge seen in cursus AUCE 1171, 1172 and 1173
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| Content |
- Soil-structure interaction as an advanced method to design spread footings, piled rafts, piles under horizontal loading, diaphragm walls; interest and limitation of finite elements software
- Groundwater flow analysis under complex conditions: anisotropy, heterogeneity, free surface groundwater flow, seepage forces, piping, transient conditions, interpretation of pumping tests results
- Ultimate states design and soil plasticity
- Foundation technology, temporary and permanent soil improvement techniques
- Advanced analysis of slope stability: discussion of drained vs. undrained conditions and parameters, connection with laboratory triaxial and other shear testing, advanced slice methods (complete Bishop, Janbu, Morgenstern & Price), use specific software
Lectures are delivered in auditoria. Exercises are administered under a seminar format to solve case studies. Use of the Plaxis® Finite Element and Geo-Slope ® softwares is introduced.
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| Other information |
Prequesit : AUCE 2173, Statics
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Cycle et année
d'étude |
> Master [120] in Civil Engineering
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Faculty or entity
in charge |
> GC
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