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Compulsory optional courses

Numerical Simulation in Geotechnics (CE-WP09)

128019 | SS | M. Sc. | 2 SWS | 3 LP | Moodle course

Wp24-02
Inhalt
  • FEM in geotechnics and review of the course “Simple constitutive models”
  • Introduction to the Hardening Soil (HS) and HS Small model
  • Calibration of the HS model using laboratory tests
  • Simulation of laboratory tests and optimization of parameters
  • Consideration of structures, interactions and boundary conditions
  • Consideration of water pressures in Plaxis
  • Overview of different calculation types
  • Introduction to Finite Element Limit Analysis (FELA)
  • Introduction to the Discrete Element Method (DEM)
  • Plaxis2D exercises on shallow foundations, retaining walls, consolidation, slope stability and tunneling

Optional courses

Advanced Constitutive Models for Geomaterials (CE-W06)

128018 | SS | M. Sc. | 2 SWS | 3 LP | Moodle course

Hardening Soil Fliessflaeche
Inhalt

Lectures

  • Introduction to Critical State Soil Mechanics (CSSM)
  • Introduction to the Modified Cam-Clay (MCC) model
  • Introduction to Hypoplasticity with Intergranular Strain (IGS)
  • Time-dependent behavior of soft clays
  • Introduction to Visco-Hypoplasticity
  • Introduction to the Sanisand model
  • Basics of tensor calculus

Exercises

  • Calibration of constitutive models based on laboratory tests
  • Introduction to the 1-element FE program IncrementalDriver (ID)
  • Simulation of laboratory tests (including oedometer and triaxial tests) with ID using various constitutive models