Earth Works
Code
9405
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Engenharia Civil
Credits
6.0
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
The student should be able to:
1.identify different types of embankments, depending on its constitution and purpose;
2.know how to design some retaining structures associated to embankments (terramesh, reinforced soil, etc.);
3.design embankment dams – identifying design scenarios and solutions: fill zoning, stability analysis with geoslope program
4. study seepage, filters and upstream protection;
5.define trial embankments and construction control programs;
6.knowing different monitoring equipments and their application
7. use Plaxis to do stress-strain analysis during different life periods of an earth dam.
Bibliography
R. Fell – Geotechnical Engineering of Dams, 1987.
Portuguese Regulation of Safety of Dams - Decreto-Lei 344/2007
J. Marcelino - Projecto, construção e exploração de pequenas barragens de aterro. Aspectos geotécnicos, 2008.
H. J. Priebe - The Design of vibroreplacement
Cedergren, H. R. - Seepage, Drainage and Flow Nets, Wiley, 1989.