CE 587 - SOIL DYNAMICS

 
 

Instructor:

Rodrigo Salgado, G235, 4-5030
rodrigo@ecn.purdue.edu
 

Location and class times:

Spring, 1998
MW 8:10 to 9:25
Civil Engineering Building, 2113
 

Assignments:

HW 1

HW 2
Questions 3 and 4 are to be done in pairs.

HW 3

HW 4

References:

Barkan, D. D. (1962), "Dynamics of Bases and Foundations", McGraw-Hill Book Company.
Das, Braja M. (1993), "Principles of Soil Dynamics", PWS-KENT Publishing Company.
Prakash, S. (1991), "Soil Dynamics", Shamsher Prakash Foundation.
Rao, Singiresu (1990), "Mechanical Vibrations", Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
Richart, F. E., Jr., Hall, J. R., and Woods, R. D. (1970), "Vibrations of Soils and Foundations",    Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. 


 






TOPIC





PERIODS





NOTES







1)
OVERVIEW
·
Soil Dynamics

·
Dynamic Loads

·
Elasticity and
visco-elasticity




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2)
THEORY OF VIBRATIONS 
·
Introduction

·
Free Vibration
of SDOF Systems

·
Harmonically Excited
Vibrations

·
Vibrations under
General Force

·
Multi-DOF Systems

·
Continuous Systems




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Midterm No. 1: 2/19






CIVL 1266







3)
THEORY OF WAVE PROPAGATION 
·
One-Dimensional
Waves

·
Propagation in
an Elastic Half-Space

·
Notions of pile
dynamics




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4)
DYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF SOILS 
·
Properties

·
Rate Effects

·
Laboratory Tests
-Bender Elements

-Cyclic Triaxial Tests

-Cyclic Simple Shear Tests

-Resonant Column / Torsional
Shear
·
Field Tests
-Down-hole Technique

-Cross-hole Technique

-SASW

-Reflection/Refraction Surveys

-Seismic CPT
·
Consolidation
of the Information Available, Correlations




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Midterm No. 2:






3/31






CIVL G212







5)
Vibrations of Foundations 
·
Theoretical Basis

·
Vibration Modes

·
Foundations for
Impact Machines

·
Embedded Foundations

·
Foundation Isolation




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6)
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering


 

·
Earthquakes

·
Earthquake Characteristics
-Magnitude

-Distance

-Duration
·
Liquefaction




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Midterm No. 3: 4/23






CIVL G212







7)
CONCLUSION



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