Niemunis (2009): Über die Anwendung der Kontinuumstheorie auf bodenmechanische Probleme (download)

• geotechnical invariants of stress and strain
• failure criteria according to Coulomb, Matsuoka-Nakai etc.
• contractancy and dilatancy
• critical density
• failure criteria according to Krey-Tiedemann
• soil behaviour under partial saturation
• collapse theorems and their application (Kinematic Element Analysis)
• elasticity in soil mechanics (isotropic and anisotropic)
• acoustic tensor
• elastoplasticity with volumetric hardening using the example of the Cam-Clay-Model
• soil behaviour under cyclic loading
• one-dimensional viscoplasticity

Students of the courses Civil Engineering MSc (particularly with Study Focus V) and Engineering Structures MSc (particularly with Profile 4)

The students obtained a scientific based understanding of the essential behaviour of soil under monotonic and cyclic load with and without effects of time. They are able to describe relations in soil mechanics mathematically and physically correctly. They can understand the tensorial terminology of modern geotechnical literature and can apply computing programs to comprehend element tests. They recognize self-reliantly relevant mechanisms of boundary value problems and can specify the limitations of simple engineering models.