CIEN E6246: Advanced Soil Mechanics
Master advanced soil testing, constitutive modeling, and finite element analysis as you connect geotechnical theory with real-world field data.
Course Overview
This course is designed to integrate all aspects of geotechnical engineering at an advanced level. You will conduct advanced soil testings such as triaxial and plane strain compression tests. Characterizations of sand and clay are introduced using constitutive models, which are based on elastoplasticity. The modified Cam-clay model is implemented into coupled stress-flow finite element procedures. A final project is required where students conduct and compare the finite element results with the field measurements.
Course Instructor
Hoe Ling
Professor
Hoe Ling is a professor of Geotechnical Engineering, His major fields of research include geosynthetic-reinforced soil structures, soil constitutive modeling, geotechnical earthquake engineering, numerical and centrifuge modeling.
Ling obtained his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Kyoto University, Japan (1988), and his master's (1990) and doctoral degrees (1993) from the University of Tokyo. In addition to his research, Ling collaborates actively with international institutions and agencies and has made several reconnaissance trips related to the typhoon and earthquake disasters.