International Urban Earthquake Engineering Center for Mitigating Seismic Mega Risk : Education : Syllabus : Mechanics of Geomaterials

Name of Lecture

Mechanics of Geomaterials

Semester

Spring Semester

Credits

2-0-0

Opening year

Every Year

Lecturer

Prof.Osamu KUSAKABE and Assoc. Prof. Thirapong PIPATPONGSA

Syllabus

[Aims and Scope]

Explain mechanical behaviour of various geomaterials

[Outline]

Behaviour of grains and packing of granular materials

Stress space and failure criteria

Micro-scopic view of geo-materials

Sampling and disturbance

Behaviour of naturally deposit soils

Behaviour of improved geo-materials

Behaviour of reinforced geo-materials

Time dependent behaviour of geo-materials

Constitutive equations

[Evaluation]

Assignments, Examination, interview

[Texts]

Handouts on each topic will be provided by lectures.

[Prerequisites]

None