CEE 643 - Advanced Soil Mechanics I, 3 credits

 

South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Spring 2009

MWF 9:00-9:50 AM

MCB 205W

 

Instructor:

Dr. Sangchul Bang

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

CM 237

Official Office Hours: MWF 11:00-12:00 noon

Tel) 394-2440

E-mail: Sangchul.bang@sdsmt.edu

 

Course Description: One- and two-dimensional consolidation theory; field consolidation behavior; anisotropic consolidation; geotechnical material failure criteria; constitutive laws for geotechnical materials; flexible and rigid beams on elastic foundations; analysis of single and group piles under various loadings; stress development in soil mass.

 

Prerequisites: CEE 346 or permission of instructor

 

Instructional Methods: Three hours of classroom lectures a week.

 

Course Requirements:

Cheating and plagiarism Policy: Any type of cheating or plagiarism will result in a failing grade.

Make-up Policy: There will be no make-up exam/lab session.  If you have to miss any laboratory session, you must in advance ask the instructor to temporarily reassign you to one of the other sessions.

Course Goals:

This course is designed to provide undergraduate seniors and graduate students in civil engineering, geological engineering, or similarly related engineering with advanced methods of design and analysis of various geotechnical systems and soil-structure interaction problems.

Expectations:

Students should know how to use programming languages, spreadsheets and Mathcad, be familiar with stresses, strains and deformations, be familiar with differentiation and integration, and should have been introduced to differential equations and numerical methods

Evaluation Procedures:

  1. Number of tests: 1 one hour exam and 1 one hour final exam

 

  1. Grading system:
    1. one hour exams, 40 %
    2. Homework = 10 %
    3. Final exam = 40 %

Requirements for Homework:

Problems will be assigned on Fridays and are due on following Friday.  The following format is in effect for homework problems:

  1. Write on one side of the sheet only.
  2. Staple the assignment together at the upper left corner.
  3. Homework must be done in a neat and orderly format.  Sloppy work will not be graded.

Class Schedule and Topics:

1.      Methods of Geotechnical Analysis

a)      Review of Matrix Algebra

b)      Collocation

c)      Subdomain Collocation

d)     Least Square

e)      Galerkin’s

f)       Energy Methods

2. Failure Criteria in Soil Mechanics

a)      Tresca, VonMises and Mohr-Coulomb

3. Constitutive Laws for Soils 

a)Linear and Nonlinear

b)      Elastic

c)      Plastic

d)     Viscous

e)      Finite Element Application

4.      Beam on Elastic Foundation

a)      Rigid and Flexible Beam

b)      Hetenyi Solution

c)      Composite Finite Element Solution

d)     Numerical Solution

5.      Elastic Foundation Analysis

 

Note: Students with special needs or requiring special accommodations should contact the instructor and/or the campus ADA coordinator, Jolie McCoy, at 394-1924 at the earliest opportunity.

Freedom in learning: Students are responsible for learning the content of any course of study in which they are enrolled. Under Board of Regents and University policy, student academic performance shall be evaluated solely on an academic basis and students should be free to take reasoned exception to the data or views offered in any course of study. Students who believe that an academic evaluation is unrelated to academic standards but is related instead to judgment of their personal opinion or conduct should contact the dean of the college which offers the class to initiate a review of the evaluation.