MABY5440 Geotechnical Models and Simulations Course description

SYKKPRA10, SYKPPRA10 SYKDPRA10 er fullt overlappende.

BYGG2200 Geotechnics or equivalent, MABY5410 Advanced soil mechanics

After completing this course, the student will gain the following knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

Students have in-depth knowledge of:

• general mechanical behaviours of different soil types based on previous laboratory test results
• elastic-plasticity theory and stress-strain relationships
• concept of critical state and critical state soil mechanics
• soil models used in numerical simulation tools and their limitations
• Mathematical and theoretical basis of finite element method

Skills

Students can:

• capture key soil behaviours and interpret important soil parameters to be used for numerical simulation
• understand soil elastic-plasticity and critical state soil mechanics
• derive the simple constitutive equation to describe soil stress-strain behaviours
• modify / develop simple numerical work based on soil models to simulate soil elementary test
• use numerical tool (e.g. PLAXIS or GeoSuite) to solve the boundary value problem in geotechnical design

General competence

Students:

• deepen the understanding of soil mechanical behaviours and can use mathematics to simply describe it
• have good overview of typical soil models and can choose proper model to simulate soil behaviours

can use numerical tools (e.g. PLAXIS or GeoSuite) to perform numerical analysis with the selection of good parameter inputs, right boundary condition setting and result validation

Lectures, exercises and projects

Lectures: 2/3 lecture notes must be submitted and approved.

The exam consists of two parts:

1) Written group project report, weighted 50%, and

2) Oral group presentation of the project following by individual Q&A, weighted 50%.

The assessment is form of group evaluation with 2-4 students in each group. The project report is approximately 5000 words. The oral presentation should be within 15-20 mins followed by individual Q&A session of 5-10 mins each.

All assessment parts must be awarded a pass grade (E or better) for the student to pass the course.

Assessment part 1) can be appealed. Assessment part 2) can not be appealed.

All types of materials and equipment are allowed.

Grade scale A-F

Exam part 1): 1 internal examiner

Exam part 2): 2 internal examiners

External examiners are used regularly

Erik Ravik Sørlie