Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
FOUNDATIONS AND STRUCTURAL DESIGN
Description
Theory/Practice
4
Instructors
Elisabete Costa Esteves
Contents
1 Applied Materials in construction: Concrete; Steel. 2. Geotechnical Characterization: in Situ tests. 3 Geotechnical design; Coefficient of Global Security Method; Limit states and partial safety factors Methods; Probabilistic methods; Introduction to Eurocodes 7 and 8. 4. Shallow Foundations; Vertical Load Capacity; Estimating Settlements of Foundations. 5. Deep Foundations; Axially Loaded Piles; Load Capacity: Theoretical and Semi-empirical Formulations. 6 Evaluation of Seismic Behavior of the soil.
Learning Outcomes
To develop understanding and competences on the design of shallow and deep foundations.
Knowledge of the main types of foundations, their particularities and specificities conditioned by the nature of soil profile. Knowledge of the geotechnical characterization methods. Teaching the principles and methodologies of geotechnical and structural design of foundations under statically and dynamically loads (earthquakes). Contact with different types of marketing solutions, describing the main constraints associated with them. Learning design methods in geotechnical perspective under the new rules of Eurocodes (EC1, EC2, EC7 and EC8-Part 5).