Ch 1 - Installation technology of retaining panels: slurry walls, sheet pile walls, reinforcement, anchors - Limit state design
Ch 2 - Walls and sheet-pile walls: analytical calculation of cantilever walls and anchored walls
Ch 3 - Soil improvement through densification: replacement and compaction, preloading, vertical drains, vibrocompaction, dynamic consolidation.
Ch 4 - Soil improvement through reinforcement: stone columns, micropiles, geotextiles, terre armeé.
Ch 5 - Constitutive laws of soil behaviour. Finite element modelling. Introduction to Plaxis (elasto-plasticity)
Ch 6 - Foundation mats and slabs: stiffness, deformations and admissible deformations. Settlement of a single pile.
Ch 7 - Horizontal loading: piles and retaining structures, tension piles and anchors.
Ch 8 - Slope stability: limit equilibrium methods and strength reduction methods.
Ch 9 - Slope stabilization: causes of failure, drainage, cut and fill methods, biotechnical methods, stabilizing piles.
Ch 10 - Behaviour of calcareous soil in shear and compression. Impact of crushable particles.
Ch 11 - Behaviour of soft soils, consolidation theories, evaluation of consolidation properties.
Ch 12 - Shear strength of soft soils, impact of disturbance on undrained shear strength, anisotropy, strain-rate effect.
Ch 13 - Behaviour of unsaturated soil, matric suction and its effect on shear strength and compression, hydraulic conductivity.
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