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      Fundamentals of Geotechnical Engineering

      Authorship:

      • Fernandes Rodrigues, Mª Helena
      • Hernández Vázquez, Jesus María

      UPV/EHU

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    SYLLABUS

     

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    LECTURE MATERIALS

     

    • LESSON 1. INTRODUCTION. PURPOSE OF GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING.

      Definitions. Site exploration and characterization: buildings, underground works, tunnels, retaining walls, slope stability. Historical failures.

    • Lesson 1. Introduction. Purpose of Geotechnical Engineering (theoretical concepts). File

    • LESSON 2. BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SOILS AND ROCKS.

      Components of soils. Mass and volume relationships. Basic properties and other specific characteristics. Rock mass: definitions. Physical properties of intact rocks: unit weight, porosity, durability and permeability. International standards.

    • Lesson 2. Basic characteristics of soils and rocks (theoretical concepts). File

    • LESSON 3. SOIL AND ROCK CLASSIFICATION.

      Soil particles: sizes and shapes. Particle size distribution analysis. Properties of clays. Atterberg limits. Plasticity chart. Unified Soil Classification System (USCS). Rock and rock mass classifications: weathering grade, RQD, RMR. International standards.

    • Lesson 3. Soil and rock classification (theoretical concepts). File
    • Annex 1. Unified Soil Classification System (USCS). Flowchart. File
    • Annex 2. RMR: input data and support table. URL

    • LESSON 4. STRESSES.

      Geostatic stresses. Effective stresses. Mohr's circles. Stress distribution due to applied surface loads. Flow of water in soil: permeability. Stress distribution between the phases of a soil.

    • Lesson 4. Stresses (theoretical concepts). File

    • LESSON 5. SETTLEMENT ANALYSIS.

      Definitions. Allowable settlements. Immediate settlement. Consolidation settlement. International standards.

    • Lesson 5. Settlement analysis (theoretical concepts). File

    • LESSON 6. SHEAR STRENGTH OF SOILS.

      Definitions. Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion. Direct shear test. Triaxial compression tests. Unconfined compression test. Values of shear strength parameters. International standards.

    • Lesson 6. Shear strength of soils (theoretical concepts). File

    • LESSON 7. BEARING CAPACITY.

      Definitions. Calculations. International standards.

    • Lesson 7. Bearing capacity (theoretical concepts). File

    • LESSON 8. MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF ROCK MASSES.

      Definitions. Mechanical properties of the intact rock: laboratory and in situ tests. Failure criteria for intact rocks: Mohr-Coulomb, Hoek & Brown. Discontinuities. Failure criteria for rock masses. Deformability. Bearing capacity. International standards.

    • Lesson 8. Mechanical behaviour of rock masses (theoretical concepts). File
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    READINGS AND OTHER RESOURCES

     

    • STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS

    • EN 1997 Eurocode 7: Geotechnical design (web page). URL

      Part 1. General rules. Part 2. Ground investigation and testing.

    • Technical Building Code (web page) - in Spanish. URL

      Technical Building Code - Foundations (in Spanish). Código Técnico de la Edificación. Documento Básico - Seguridad Estructural -  CIMIENTOS (CTE.DB-SE-C).

    • Technical guides (in Spanish). Ministry of Public Works (web page). URL
    • ASTM Standards Soil and Rock (I). URL

      ASTM Volume 04.08 Soil and Rock (I): D420 – D5876/D5876M.

    • ASTM Standards Soil and Rock (II). URL

      ASTM Volume 04.09 Soil and Rock (II): D5878 – latest.

    • LESSON 1. INTRODUCTION. PURPOSE OF GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING.

    • Mexico city is sinking (video). URL

      Original title: "Sinking city. Mexico city's water crisis" (29/02/2016 - YouTube).

      YouTube channel: FUSION.

    • Tunnel construction using TBM (video). URL

      Original title: "Animation of Tunnel Boring Machine" (28/04/2015 - YouTube) by California High-Speed Rail Authority.

    • Tunnel construction using NATM (video). URL

      Original title: "New Austrian Tunneling Method" (12/06/2012 - YouTube) by PORR Tunnelbau.

    • Road construction (video). URL

      Original title: "How to Design a Road" (12/02/2015 - YouTube) by Asphaltinstitute.

    • Collapse of the Cancura bridge (video). URL

      Original title: "Colapso Puente Cancura" (23/06/2018 - YouTube) by Klee/Comunicación Visual.

    • Massive slides (video). URL

      Original title: "top-5 Massive landslide Caught on Camera" (26/02/2019 - YouTube).

      YouTube channel: TheRoyal TV.

    • Landslide/rockfall in Ondarroa, Bizkaia (video). URL

      Original title: "Un dron capta imágenes aéreas de la ladera de Ondarroa" (15/03/2016 - YouTube) by Diputación de Bizkaia.

    • Why does the tower of Pisa lean? By John Burland (video).

      Original title: "Civil engineering: An oral history part 2 - Propping up Pisa" (27/11/2012 - YouTube).

      YouTube channel: Institution of Civil Engineers.

    • Why does the tower of Pisa lean? By BBC Earth Lab (video). URL

      Original title: "Why does the leaning tower of Pisa lean? | Sci Guide with Jheni Osman | Head Squeeze" (17/11/2013).

      YouTube channel: BBC Earth Lab.

    • LESSON 2. BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SOILS AND ROCKS.

    • Soil as an engineering material (video). URL

      Original title: "The fundamental building blocks" (20/07/2015 - YouTube).

      Video designed and presented by Declan Philips PhD PE and Alan O'Reilly BEng. Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Limerick (Ireland).

    • Slake durability test (video). URL

      YouTube channel: Engineering Geology. Credit to Muzium Geology Perak, Malaysia, and Team Geology from Universiti Teknologi MARA Pulau Pinang, Malaysia (24/07/2017).

    • LESSON 3. SOIL AND ROCK CLASSIFICATION.

    • Particle size analysis (video). URL

      Missouri University of Science & Technology (04/06/2012 - YouTube).

    • Atterberg limit tests (video). URL

      Missouri University of Science & Technology (02/07/2012 - YouTube).

    • Rock mass classification (video). URL

      Lecture presented by Dick Stacey, Emeritus Professor, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (03/06/2016 - YouTube).

    • LESSON 4. STRESSES.

    • Geostatic stresses (video). URL

      Original title: "CE326 Mod 9.4-9.5 geostatic stress" (29/12/2014). Presented by Professor William A. Kitch.

      YouTube channel: Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering.

    • Effective stresses (video). URL

      Original title: "CE326 Mod 9.8-9.9 effective stress" (30/12/2014). Presented by Professor William A. Kitch.

      YouTube channel: Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering.

    • Induced stresses (video). URL

      Original title: "CE326 Mod 9.6 induced stress" (29/12/2014). Presented by Professor William A. Kitch.

      YouTube channel: Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering.

    • LESSON 5. SETTLEMENT ANALYSIS.

    • Consolidation test (video). URL

      Original title: "Carleton University - CIVE 3208 Lab 5: Consolidation" (12/09/2011). Created by Tomas Plesnik.

      YouTube channel: Carleton University.

    • LESSON 6. SHEAR STRENGTH OF SOILS.

    • Landslide in Norway (video) URL

      Original title: "Landslide sweeps Norway homes into the sea" (04/06/2020).

      YouTube channel: The Telegraph.

    • Soil strength: drained and undrained shear strength (video). URL

      Original title: "Drained and undrained shear strength" (23/09/2013 - YouTube).

      Video designed and presented by Declan Philips PhD PE and Alan O'Reilly BEng. Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Limerick (Ireland).

    • Direct Shear Test (video). URL

      Original title: "Carleton University - CIVE 3208 Lab 6: Direct Shear Test" (13/09/2011). Created by Tomas Plesnik.

      YouTube channel: Carleton University.

    • Triaxial compression tests (video) URL

      Original title: "CE 326 Mod 12.9b Triaxial Shear Test" (10/02/2015). Presented by Professor William A. Kitch.

      YouTube channel: Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering.

    • Unconfined compression test (video). URL

      Original title: "Unconfined Compression Test 02" (29/12/2009).

      YouTube channel: HWS Consulting.

    • LESSON 8. MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF ROCK MASSES.

    • Uniaxial compression test (video) URL

      Original title: "Laboratory Uniaxial compression test - Rock Mechanics - Granit" (28/09/2015).

      YouTube channel: Sahar Cohen.

    • Point load test (video). URL

      Original title: "MinE 323-Point load strength Index (lab 1)" (19/06/2018).

      YouTube channel: Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering.

    • Brazilian test (video) URL

      Original title: "MinE 323-Brazilian Tensile Strength Test (lab 3)" (03/07/2018).

      YouTube channel: Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering.

    • Generalized Hoek-Brown Criterion (web page). URL
    • Hoek's Corner (web page). URL

      Articles and video lectures from Dr. Evert Hoek (rock mechanics, Hoek-Brown failure criterion, GSI classification, ...)

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    ASSIGNMENTS

     

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    SELF-EVALUATION

     

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    TEACHERS

     

    • Jesús Mª Hernández Vázquez and Mª Helena Fernandes Rodrigues

      Department of Mechanical Engineering

      Faculty of Engineering in Bilbao

      University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU

    • Teaching staff: short CV. File
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    REFERENCES

     

    • CORE BIBLIOGRAPHY

    • LIU, C.; EVETT, J. Soils and Foundations. 8th Ed. New Jersey: Pearson Education, 2014.

    • BARNES, G.E. Soils Mechanics: principles and practice. 4th Ed. London: MacMillan International Higher Education, 2016.

    • CODUTO, D.P.; YEUNG, M.R.; KITCH, W.A. Geotechnical Engineering: Principles & Practices. 2nd Ed. London: Pearson Education, 2011.

    • MIT OpenCourseWare "Soil Behavior" URL

      Charles Ladd, Lucy Jen, and Andrew Whittle. 1.322 Soil Behavior. Spring 2005. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

    • ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

    • TERZAGHI, K.; PECK, R.B.; MESRI, G. Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice. 3rd Edition. New York: Wiley, 1996.

    • ATKINSON, J. The Mechanics of Soils and Foundations. 2nd Ed. London: Taylor & Francis, 2007.

    • MIT OpenCourseWare "Advanced Soil Mechanics" URL

      Charles Ladd, and Lucy Jen. 1.361 Advanced Soil Mechanics. Fall 2004. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

    • MIT OpenCourseWare "Advanced Geotechnical Engineering" URL

      Andrew Whittle. 1.364 Advanced Geotechnical Engineering. Fall 2003. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

    • US Army Corps of Engineers Publications URL

      Engineer Manuals:

      EM1110-1-1904. Settlement Analysis.

      EM1110-1-1905. Bearing Capacity of Soils.

      EM1110-1-1804. Geotechnical Investigations.

      EM1110-2-1906. Laboratory Soils Testing.