Engineering - Course - Advanced Soil Mechanics

Basic concepts on continuum mechanics: axioms, tonsorial and indicial forms of strains and stresses. Non-linear behavior. Stress and strain paths. Constitutive models in elasticity, hypo elasticity and quasilinear models. Plasticity: yield criterion, flow rule, incremental equations, isotropic and anisotropic hardening. Von Misses and tresca models. critical state concepts. Applications in shallow foundations, retaining walls, and slop stability analysis.