CE5604 UNSATURATED SOILS
| Course Code: | 5625604 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Civil Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. NABİ KARTAL TOKER |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The course aims to equip geotechnical engineers with theorethical knowledge and thought framework for handling problems that involve partially saturated soils in research and practice. The course does not directly provide design tools and practical calculations.
Course Content
Interfacial tension, cavitation, capillarity. Soil suction, water retention and drainage of porous media. Micromechanics/microhydraulics of unsaturated soil. Testing of unsaturated soils: suction measurement and control, volume measurement. Flow and balance laws, hydraulic conductivity function, 1-D flow, infiltration and evaporation. Shear strength; effective stress and independent state variables approaches. Deformation and consolidation; expansive and collapsing of soils. Constitutive modeling.
Course Learning Outcomes
Become familiar with air-water interface physics
Extend existing soil mechanics knowledge to problems with partial saturation
Establish theoretical backgroung for unsaturated soil research
Gain ability to perceive geotechnical problems through unsaturated soil framework
Improve researcher abilities related to literature review, article writing and presentation