224-0201/01 – Soil and Rock Mechanics (MH&Z)
| Gurantor department | Department of Geotechnics and Underground Engineering | Credits | 6 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Dr. Ing. Hynek Lahuta | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Barbara Luňáčková, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 1999/2000 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FAST | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Course provides a background knowledge of the Soil Mechanics essential to develope
next subjects such as Foundation, Underground and Geotechnical Constructions, etc.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs
Summary
The subject developes knowledge of fundamental of the rock and soil materials.
The both material types create natural structures in which
construction activities are commonly carried out or they also closely interfere
to manmade structures. Introductory lectures refer to the ground properties,
ground classification systems and fundamental constitutional laws of their
behaviour when subjected to the internal or external force acting. The
theoretical part after succeed chapters notifying the application tasks widely
met in the geotechnical engineering, praxis such as slope stability
engineering, earth pressures against supports, ground filters, drainage
building pits, compaction, consolidation, ground treatment, modelling, and
monitoring. The undergraduate will gain knowledge about the rock and soil
mechanics as an source information for the geotechnical engineering praxis. He
will learn to solve the geotechnical tasks involving in stress strain and
failure behaviour of ground structures.
Compulsory literature:
Atkinson, J. H.: [i] An Itroduction to the Mechanics of Soils. [/i] London : McGraw-Hill, 1993
Aysen, A.: [i] Soil Mechanics:Basic Concepts and Engineering Applications. [/i] Leiden : A.A.Balkema Publishers, 2005
Craig, R.F.: [i] Craig's Soíl Mechanics Seventh Edition. [/i] London New York : Spon Press, 2004
Recommended literature:
Atkinson, J. H.: [i] An Itroduction to the Mechanics of Soils. [/i] London : McGraw-Hill, 1993
Aysen, A.: [i] Soil Mechanics:Basic Concepts and Engineering Applications. [/i] Leiden : A.A.Balkema Publishers, 2005
Craig, R.F.: [i] Craig's Soíl Mechanics Seventh Edition. [/i] London New York : Spon Press, 2004
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Required completing the course Geology.
At least 70% attendance at the exercises. Absence, up to a maximum of 30%, must be excused and the apology must be accepted by the teacher (the teacher decides to recognize the reason for the excuse).
Tasks assigned on the exercises must be hand in within the dates set by the teacher.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject syllabus:
1. Introduction. Rock and soil materials. Nature of soils.
2. Physical properties. Mass-volume relations, index properties.
3. Classification of grounds. Geotechnical survey. Geotechnical categories.
4. Water flow in ground
5. Stresses in ground.
6. Mechanical properties.
7. Strenght characteristics, testing. Deformational characteristics.
8. Consolidation of ground.
9. Soil and ground mechanics problems.
10. Slopes. Stability of slopes from cohesive soils.
11. Stability of slopes from frictional soils. Stability of rock slopes.
12. Earth pressures against supports.1
3. Modification of soil properties. Compaction,
14. Modeling in geomechanics. Geotechnical monitoring. Inverse analysis.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction