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Compulsory courses

Soil and Rock Behaviour: Soil behaviour and Simple constitutive models for soils

SE-C-5 | WS | M. Sc. | 2hrs /week | 3 CP | Moodle course

Inhalt
  • Material behavior of sand and clay under oedometric and triaxial monotonic loading, under drained and undrained boundary conditions
  • Critical states
  • Notes on material behavior under cyclic/dynamic loading
  • Procedure of an FE simulation and definition of a constitutive model
  • Consideration of different features of soils in constitutive models
  • Stress, strain, invariants and shear strength criteria
  • Simple constitutive models: elasticity, Mohr-Coulomb elastoplasticity
  • Calibration of simple constitutive models using laboratory tests

Compulsory Optional Courses

Design of Geotechnical Structures – Shallow and Deep Foundations

 SE-CO-6 | SS | M. Sc. | 4hrs /week | 6 CP | Moodle-Course

Inhalt
  • Basics of design according to EC 7
  • Shallow single and strip foundations
  • Plate foundations
  • Single pile foundations under vertical loading
  • Single pile foundations under horizontal loading
  • Pile groups under vertical loading
  • Pile test loads
  • Pile grates
  • Drilled-shaft (caisson) foundations
  • Ground improvement
  • Introduction to GGU-Software

Design of Geotechnical Structures – Excavation Pits, Retaining Structures and Soil Improvement

 SE-CO-14 | WS | M. Sc. | 4hrs /week | 6 CP | Moodle-Course

Inhalt
  • Introduction to failure mechanisms of various structures
  • Calculation methods for the determination of the safety factor
  • Slope stability
  • Retaining structures
  • Construction pits
  • Slurry-supported open trenches
  • Anchors
  • Cofferdams
  • Underpinning
  • Geogrid-reinforced structures
  • Well systems

Numerical Simulation in Geotechnics

SE-CO-3 | SS  | M. Sc. | 2hrs /week | 3 CP | Moodle-Course

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

Constitutive Models for Geomaterials

SE-CO-10 | SS  | M. Sc. | 2hrs /week | 3 CP | Moodle-Course

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

Soil Dynamics and Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

SE-CO-7 | WS | M. Sc. | 2hrs /week | 3 CP | Moodle-Course

Inhalt

Soil dynamics: 

  • Introduction to soil dynamics
  • Seismic waves and wave types
  • Laboratory tests and field trials
  • Dynamic soil parameters
  • Machine foundation
  • Dynamic interaction soil-foundation
  • Exercise and laboratory visit

Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering:

  • Soil liquefaction under seismic action
  • Design of embankments against seismic action
  • Design of retaining structures against seismic action
  • Ground response analysis

Problematic Soils

SE-CO-7 | WS | M. Sc. | 2hrs /week | 3 CP | Moodle-Course

Inhalt
  • Soft cohesive and organic soils
  • Swelling and collapse-prone soils
  • Physico-chemical behavior, structure
  • Saturated and unsaturated soils
  • Slump/settlement flow
  • Shrinkage and consolidation behavior, compaction
  • Structures on problematic soils
  • Laboratory tests to record the above phenomena

Optional courses

Practical Soil Mechanics

SE-O-4 | WS | M. Sc. | 2hrs /week | 3 CP | Moodle-Course

Inhalt
  • Soil classification tests (water content, grain size distribution, Atterberg limits (plasticity properties), maximum and minimum density, particle density),
  • Index tests for bentonite suspensions as support fluid
  • Determination of shear strength parameters (direct shear test, triaxial test)
  • Determination of compressibility of soils (oedometer test)
  • Proctor tests

Environmental Geotechnics

SE-O-5 | SS | M. Sc. | 2hrs /week | 3 CP | Moodle course

Inhalt
  • Relevant environmental pollutants and their respective industrial sectors
  • Advective and diffusive transport of pollutants in porous media
  • Methods for soil remediation and containment of pollutants
  • Barrier systems for landfills and low-contaminated soils
  • Individual project work dealing with specific questions of environmental geotechnics
  • Future challenges of environmental geotechnics