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GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2010/2011

Academic Year of provision:

2013/2014

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

5-year Single Cycle Master's Degree Programme in ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING

Disciplinary Sector:

Geotechnics

Grouping type:

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

NOCILLA Alessandra Professor

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

120

Hours of individual study:

105

Hydraulics, Solid Mechanics

Content

The course is intended to serve the needs of students of the fundamental principles of the modern soil mechanics. Soil mechanics deals with the general properties, physical and mechanical, of soils. It is also given the basis to solve some practical engineering problem connected to the planning and construction of various works: foundations, earth-retaining structures and slope stability.

Recommended Bibliography

1.Colombo, P e Colleselli, F. - Elementi di Geotecnica, III ed. Zanichelli, 2004.
2.Lambe, T.W. e Whitman, R.V. - Meccanica dei Terreni. Traduzione di Valore, C., Flaccovio ed., 1997.
3.Craig, R.F. - Soil Mechanics. Spon Press, 2002.
4. Atkinson J. - Meccanica delle terre e fondazioni. McGraw-Hill, 1997.
5. Lancellotta, R. – Geotecnica. Zanichelli, 2004

Assessment Methods

wriiten and oral examination

Assessment:

Final Mark

Programme of Educational Activities

Start date of teaching period:

Monday, September 16, 2013

End date of teaching period:

Friday, December 20, 2013