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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 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 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 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 5. SETTLEMENT ANALYSIS.
Definitions. Allowable settlements. Immediate settlement. Consolidation settlement. International standards.
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 7. BEARING CAPACITY.
Definitions. Calculations. International standards.
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.
READINGS AND OTHER RESOURCES
STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS
Part 1. General rules. Part 2. Ground investigation and testing.
Technical Building Code - Foundations (in Spanish). Código Técnico de la Edificación. Documento Básico - Seguridad Estructural - CIMIENTOS (CTE.DB-SE-C).
ASTM Volume 04.08 Soil and Rock (I): D420 – D5876/D5876M.
ASTM Volume 04.09 Soil and Rock (II): D5878 – latest.
LESSON 1. INTRODUCTION. PURPOSE OF GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING.
Original title: "Sinking city. Mexico city's water crisis" (29/02/2016 - YouTube).
YouTube channel: FUSION.
Original title: "Animation of Tunnel Boring Machine" (28/04/2015 - YouTube) by California High-Speed Rail Authority.
Original title: "New Austrian Tunneling Method" (12/06/2012 - YouTube) by PORR Tunnelbau.
Original title: "How to Design a Road" (12/02/2015 - YouTube) by Asphaltinstitute.
Original title: "Colapso Puente Cancura" (23/06/2018 - YouTube) by Klee/Comunicación Visual.
Original title: "top-5 Massive landslide Caught on Camera" (26/02/2019 - YouTube).
YouTube channel: TheRoyal TV.
Original title: "Un dron capta imágenes aéreas de la ladera de Ondarroa" (15/03/2016 - YouTube) by Diputación de Bizkaia.
Original title: "Civil engineering: An oral history part 2 - Propping up Pisa" (27/11/2012 - YouTube).
YouTube channel: Institution of Civil Engineers.
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.
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).
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.
Missouri University of Science & Technology (04/06/2012 - YouTube).
Missouri University of Science & Technology (02/07/2012 - YouTube).
Lecture presented by Dick Stacey, Emeritus Professor, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (03/06/2016 - YouTube).
LESSON 4. STRESSES.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Original title: "Landslide sweeps Norway homes into the sea" (04/06/2020).
YouTube channel: The Telegraph.
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).
Original title: "Carleton University - CIVE 3208 Lab 6: Direct Shear Test" (13/09/2011). Created by Tomas Plesnik.
YouTube channel: Carleton University.
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.
Original title: "Unconfined Compression Test 02" (29/12/2009).
YouTube channel: HWS Consulting.
LESSON 8. MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF ROCK MASSES.
Original title: "Laboratory Uniaxial compression test - Rock Mechanics - Granit" (28/09/2015).
YouTube channel: Sahar Cohen.
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.
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.
Articles and video lectures from Dr. Evert Hoek (rock mechanics, Hoek-Brown failure criterion, GSI classification, ...)
ASSIGNMENTS
LESSON 2. BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SOILS AND ROCKS.
Complete resolution of exercises 1.2, 3, 9, 10 and 11.
LESSON 3. SOIL AND ROCK CLASSIFICATION.
Complete resolution of exercises 5 (soils 1 to 5), 9, 10, 11 and 13.
LESSON 4. STRESSES.
Complete resolution of exercises 3 and 7.
LESSON 5. SETTLEMENT ANALYSIS.
Complete resolution of exercises 2, 5 and 8.
LESSON 6. SHEAR STRENGTH OF SOILS.
Complete resolution of exercises 1 and 3.
LESSON 7. BEARING CAPACITY.
Complete resolution of exercises 1 and 9.
SELF-EVALUATION
LEARNING OUTCOMES
LO1. Understand the importance and variability of geomaterials and their impact on civil engineering design.
LO2. Characterise and classify soils, rocks and rock masses from a geotechnical engineering perspective.
LO3. Calculate initial and loading induced stresses and associated displacements below or near shallow foundations, and interpret the results.
LO4. Determine critical failure states for different types of soils, intact rocks and rock masses.
LO5. Calculate bearing capacity of shallow foundations and interpret the results.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
