Prof. Cristina Jommi

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Argomenti del programma: - Soils and soil challenges: the rationale for a unique discipline - Discrete nature of soils, classification and state of soils, from discrete to continuum framework, soil as multiphase continuum - Water in soils, pore pressure, seepage, effective stress, Darcy's law - One-dimensional compression, introduction to non-linear and non-reversible response - Geostatic stress and stress history - One dimensional…

Argomenti del programma: The content of the course is developed with a combination of homework, lectures and practical sessions. The students will have to pro-actively go through preliminary references and questions to grasp the main issues posed by given categories of geotechnical problems.