Introduction to numerical methods, development and usefulness of numerical modeling in Geotechnical Engineering; Constitutive Modeling for Geotechnical media: Requirements for a constitutive model, linear and non-linear elastic models, elastic-plastic models, elastic-perfectly plastic models, extended Mohr-Coulomb model, critical state models for clay and sand; Finite Difference: Formulating a finite difference model, Examples in the field of consolidation analysis and groundwater flow, introduction to elasticity theory. Finite Element Analysis: Introduction, mathematical formulation, linear elements 2-D elements, undrained and coupled analyses, implementation of boundary conditions and plasticity, introduction to plasticity theory, solution of elastoplastic problems.
Course ID: CCE 6206
| Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 3 | - | - |
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