Pre-requisite: 70455
The material in this unit will be concerned with design and stability problems in soil and retaining structures and foundation engineering, using soil mechanics and principles. It will also allow an understanding of the basic principles of rock mechanics. Stability problems will be considered in plane strain conditions. Similarly design and analysis of foundations will be approached in a two dimensional space. Rock Mechanics portion of the course will include physical and mechanical properties of rocks, failure criterions, models for rock discontinuities and related testing procedures. An introduction to stability problems in rock mechanics is also included.