|
Date |
|
Day |
|
Topic |
Reading |
| Jan |
15 |
|
Tue |
|
Compaction Theory |
5.1 - 5.4, 12.14 |
| Jan |
17 |
|
Thu |
|
Capillarity |
6.1 - 6.3 |
| Jan |
22 |
|
Tue |
|
Shrinkage and Swelling |
6.4 - 6.7 |
| Jan |
24 |
|
Thu |
|
Compessibility |
8.1 - 8.6 |
| Jan |
29 |
|
Tue |
|
Settlement Calculations |
8.7 |
| Jan |
31 |
|
Thu |
|
Settlement Calculations (cont.) |
8.7 |
| Feb |
5 |
|
Tue |
|
Elevation & Submergence Corrections |
Notes |
| Feb |
7 |
|
Thu |
|
Field Consolidation Curves |
8.9 - 8.15 |
| Feb |
12 |
|
Tue |
|
Time Rate of Consolidation |
9.1 - 9.3 |
| Feb |
14 |
|
Thu |
|
Time Rate of Consolidation (cont.) |
9.1 - 9.3 |
| Feb |
19 |
|
Tue |
|
Coefficient of Consolidation |
9.4 - 9.7 |
| Feb |
21 |
|
Thu |
|
Settlement Analysis |
10.1 - 10.3 |
| Feb |
26 |
|
Tue |
|
Settlement Analysis Examples |
10.5 - 10.6 |
| Feb |
28 |
|
Thu |
|
Immediate and Secondary Settlement |
10.4, 9.8 |
| Mar |
5 |
|
Tue |
|
Spring Break |
|
| Mar |
7 |
|
Thu |
|
Spring Break |
|
| Mar |
12 |
|
Tue |
|
Mohr Circle and Failure Theories |
11.1 - 11.4 |
| Mar |
14 |
|
Thu |
|
Laboratory Tests and Stress Paths |
11.5, 13.2 |
| Mar |
19 |
|
Tue |
|
Laboratory Tests and Stress Paths |
11.5, 13.2 |
| Mar |
21 |
|
Thu |
|
Shear Strength of Granular Soils |
12.1 - 12.5 |
| Mar |
26 |
|
Tue |
|
Shear Strength of Cohesive Soils |
12.10 - 12.11 |
| Mar |
28 |
|
Thu |
|
Class Cancelled for ASCE Conference |
|
| Apr |
2 |
|
Tue |
|
Shear Strength of Cohesive Soils |
12.8 - 12.9 |
| Apr |
4 |
|
Thu |
|
Shear Strength of Cohesive Soils |
12.16 - 12.17 |
| Apr |
9 |
|
Tue |
|
Stress Paths |
13.1 - 13.2 |
| Apr |
11 |
|
Thu |
|
Stress Paths |
13.3 - 13.6 |
| Apr |
16 |
|
Tue |
|
Constitutive Models for Soils |
13.8 |
| Apr |
18 |
|
Thu |
|
Basis of Drained Strength in Sands |
13.9 |
| Apr |
23 |
|
Tue |
|
Undrained Shear of Saturated Sands |
13.10 |
