| The Focus os this course is directed towards understanding the engineering properties of unsaturated soils including hydraulic permeability, shear strength and volume change. Students will learn the approaches and methodologies that can be implemented into geotechnical engineering practice to analyze the mechanical behaviours of unsaturated soils such as heave, slope stability, and bearing capactity of foundations. Students will also be introduced to Finite Element Software to model the stress versus settlement behaviours of shallow foundations and slope stability considering rainfall infiltration in sunsaturated soils. CE 3123 |
