Civil Patras - Undergraduate Studies Courses 5th Year

Undergraduate Studies

Soil Dynamics

Instructor: Thomas Konstantinos
Course code: 5805
Semester: 10ο
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Course content:

Sources of dynamic soil loading.
Vibrations of SDOF and 2-DOF systems.
Instrumentation for measuring vibrations.
Wave propagation in linear and viscoelastic soils.
Dynamic properties of soils, methods for their measurement.
Shear Stress-strain behaviour of soils under dynamic loading, test results and modelling.
Vibration of foundations, determination of equivalent spring and damping constants.
Allowable values of vibration levels.

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