Strengthening technics - KAGG9M21

Goal(s)

Know the techniques of soil and rock improvement : concepts, technologies and fields of applications

Content(s)

The Course is structured as follows :

• Courses to present general concepts of improvement and reinforcement of soils and rocks:
  o Concept Strengthening
  Soil without Inclusions
  o Concept Strengthening Soil with Inclusions
  o Concept Strengthening Rocks
• Courses to detail some of these techniques and present practical cases :
  o Nailing
  o Soil Treatment
  o Reinforcement by Metallic strips
  o Durability of reinforced soil structures
  o Improvement with Injection resin
  o Consolidation
  o Reinforcement by Rigid Inclusions
  o vibro - stone columns
  o Gabions and geogrids
  o Geosynthetics
  o Anchorages
• A directed work on the design of preloading and vertical drains
• A Project for Strengthening nailed walls (using Talren software). A report will be requested and evaluated at the end of the course.
• A numerical analysis of a soil mass reinforced by rigid inclusions (using Plaxis software)
• An evaluation with a questionnaire designed to test the student's knowledge and an assessment to test the skills of the student regarding the design of preloading with vertical drains.

soil mechanics
rock mechanics
design software
reinforced concrete structures
soil modelling
retaining walls
slope stability (software Talren)
finite element method application (software Plaxis)