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Earth Structures
FAST-CF001Acad. year: 2020/2021
- Types of earth structures - cuttings, embankments, traffic bodies, dams, landfills.
- Properties of natural, waste, lightweight geomaterials.
- Compaction and stabilization of soils.
- General principles of design of earth structures (ultimate and servisibility limit states).
- Improvement, reinforcement of soils (Preloading, Vacuum consolidation, Vertical drains, Deep dynamic compaction, Vibro compaction, Stone columns, Deep soil mixing, Geosynthetics).
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2. Mechanical properties and specifics of soils.
3. Mechanical properties and specifics of rock material, secondary materials, light weight fills.
4. General principles of designing earth structures – settlements analysis.
5. General principles of designing earth structures – stabilty analysis.
6. Ground improvement – Preloading, Vacuum Consolidation, Vertical drains.
7. Ground improvement – Deep Compaction.
8. Ground improvement - Deep Soil Mixing.
9. Ground improvement – Stone Columns.
10. Geosynthetics - properties; separation, filtration, drainage and erosion function.
11. Geosynthetics - reinforcement function.
12. Technology of Earth structures(embankment, cut-off).
13. Monitoring of Earth structures.
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Technological part is dedicated to the issues connected with execution of the earth structures. It discusses construction requirements, ground improvement techniques and others.
Students will continuously verify gained knowledge on Seminars by manual calculations as well as by calculations supported by specialized software.
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