CE 4240 - Advanced Soil Mechanics

3 Credit(s) | $49.50 Fee

This course provides an advanced, mechanics-based treatment of soil behavior for engineering analysis and design. Topics emphasize stress-strain behavior, effective stress and pore pressure response, consolidation and creep, shear strength under monotonic and cyclic loading, and constitutive concepts such as stress paths and critical-state soil mechanics. Students learn to interpret advanced laboratory and field test data (triaxial, direct simple shear, and in-situ correlations) and to apply modern analysis tools, including numerical methods, to evaluate soil performance. The course includes a project that integrates theory, testing interpretation, and modeling to produce professional engineering deliverables. (Spring, As Needed) [Graded Letter]

Prerequisite(s): CE 4150 - Prerequisite Min. Grade: D-