101-0378-00L Soil Dynamics
| Semester | Spring Semester 2021 |
| Lecturers | I. Anastasopoulos, A. Marin, T. M. Weber |
| Periodicity | yearly recurring course |
| Language of instruction | English |
| 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 |