Engineering properties of rocks, and soils and their classifications. Weathering. Discontinuities in rock masses. Engineering behaviour of rock materials and rock masses. Rock slope stability, landslides and stability of structures, construction materials, dams and reservoirs, tunnels and excavations, foundations and structures in earthquake prone regions. Engineering geological aspects of weaker materials. Reinforcements of rock masses. Site investigations and important case studies.
Stress, strain, anisotropy from Hooke’s law, Thompson notation, deformation of inclusions and cavities in elastic solids, effective stresses in rocks, stresses in cylindrical and spherical coordinate systems, deformation in circular holes, borehole stresses, Mohr’s circle and failure theories, Hashin-stricman-Walpole bounds, Voigt and Reuss bounds, Voigt-Reuss-Hill average moduli estimate, rock and pore compressiblilities, Kustar and Toksoz formulation of effective moduli, Self consistent and differential effective medium theory, Backus averages, packing –sorting of spheres, Thompson-Stieber model for sand and shale systems, Random spherical grain packings, Ordered spherical grain packings, Biot’s velocity relation, Generalized Gassmann’s equations for porous materials, fluid substitution in thinly laminated reservoirs, Biot-squirt model, anisotropic squirt, partial multiphase saturation, velocity-dispersion, attenuation and dynamic permeability in herogeneous poroelastic media, various velocity-porosity and Vp-Vs-density models. |
Text/ Reference Books:
- F G Bell, Engineering Geology, Butterworth-Heinemann.
- Tony Waltham, Foundations of Engineering Geology, CRC Press.
- David George Price, Michael de Freitas, Engineering Geology: Principles and Practice, Springer.
- J. Jaeger, N. G. Cook & R. Zimmerman, Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics, Wiley-Blackwell.
- G. Mavco, T. Mukherjee, Handbook of Rock Mechanics, Springer.
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