Description:

Soil mineralogy and soil fabric, soil-water electrolyte system, dispersive clay, stress and strain analyses, elastic equilibrium in soil masses, plastic equilibrium in soil masses, in situ and laboratory stress paths, shear strength of sands and clays, thermal properties of soils, critical state soil mechanics principles, nonlinear pseudoelastic and elastoplastic constitutive models. Constitutive laws of granular and cohesive material, introduction to coupling of water and soil phase in solution, application to problems of consolidation procedures with finite element method.