Análise de Estruturas Geotécnicas

To develop the ability to understand and to apply the principles of geotechnical engineering to the main geotechnical structures. To develop the ability to verify the safety of simple problems of geotechnical structures, acording to Eurocode 7.

The student should be able to:

1. obtain the solutions associated to the determination of the collapse loads of the geotechnical problems studied:determination of earth pressures, bearing capacity of shallow foundations and stability of soil masses in slopes, using limit analysis and limit equilibrium methods;

2. determine the colapse loads associated to those problems;

3. identify the ultimate limit states associated to the main geotechnical structures: retaining structures, shallow foundations and slopes;

4. verify the safety of the main geotechnical structures;

5. determine settlements of the shallow foundations