Thomas Michael Weber: Catalogue data in Spring Semester 2021 |
Name | Dr. Thomas Michael Weber |
Address | Studer Engineering GmbH Thurgauerstrasse 56 8050 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
Telephone | 044 481 06 00 |
webethom@student.ethz.ch | |
Department | Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering |
Relationship | Lecturer |
Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
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101-0378-00L | Soil Dynamics | 3 credits | 2G | I. Anastasopoulos, A. Marin, T. M. Weber | |
Abstract | Basic knowledge to explore soil dynamic problems, introduction into geotechnical earthquake engineering and solve simple problems | ||||
Objective | Goal of the lecture is to achieve a basic knowledge of soil dynamics, to be able to solve simple problems and to specify the tasks for specialists for more complex problems in different fields involved. | ||||
Content | Basics of dynamics: Differences between soil mechanics and soil dynamics. Repition of spring - mass - damping systems. Wave propagation in ideal and non ideal soil conditions. Dynamical Soil Properties: Constitutive Modelling of Soils, Soil parameter for different soil types. Soil liquefaction. Determination of soil parameters in field and laboratory investigation. Applications: Vibration calculation and isolation, geotechnical earthquake engineering from seismic hazard site amplification towards aspects of design on foundations and geotechnical structures. | ||||
Lecture notes | book (in German, see there), supported with paper and notes, which will be made available online | ||||
Literature | Towhata, I. (2008) Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering. Springer Verlag, Berlin Kramer, S. L. (1996) Geotechnical earthquake engineering. Pearson Education India. | ||||
Prerequisites / Notice | Basic knowledge of mechanics and soil mechanics is required |