MRED 418 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING AND TUNNELLING

Linear elastic geostatic stresses and torques, elastic settlement (foundations); Winkler theory of elastic bearing, compressibility and consolidation of soils; strength and failure mechanism of non-cohesive soils, friction and dilatation, theory of Taylor; applications: critical depth of unsupported tunnel, estimation of roof support, dilatation theory in 3D, critical condition theory; behaviour of undrained particulate mater - fluidisation; theory of cohesive soils and rocks: failure theories of Griffith, Mohr Coulomb, Tresca, Drucker-Prager; Dilatation of rocks, discontinuities; analysis of geotechnical structures: Coulomb theory, retaining structures, load bearing capacity of surface foundations, slope stability, underground chamber support, load bearing capacity of poles; tunnel construction: geotechnical-geostatistical model of heterogeneous geological formations, numerical methods for stress-strain analysis around underground openings, tunnel construction methods, design via the stress convergence-discharge method, TBM, Roadheader devices, settlement over shallow tunnels, deep tunnels, failures in underground excavations.