The basic soil properties of soil stress, compressibility and strength are studied from a fundamental elastic approach. Includes formulation of elastc equations, geostatic stresses, stresses due to loads, elastic strain and settlement and use of numerical and software computational procesures. Prerequisite: CE 381 or equivalent.

Subjects:
	
	1.  Formulation of Equations for Elastic Solutions
	2.  Geostatic Stresses
	3.  Stressess Due to Load Imposed on Elastic Media
		a.  FE Program for General Load Conditions
		b.  Solutions from Boussinesq Equation
		c.  Beam on Elastic Foundation

	4. Settlement via Elastic and Other Methods
		a.  Elastic Methods
		b.  Engineering Methods
		c.  Emperical Methods

	5.  Consolidation Theory
		a.  Finite Difference Solutions
		b.  Closed Form Methods

Resources:

	1.  Soil Mechanics by Perloff and Baron
	2.  Foundations of Theoretical Soil Mechanics by M. Harr
	3.  Elastic Solutions for Soil and Rock Mechanics by H. G. Poulos 
	    and E. Davis
	4.  Theory of Elasticity by Timoshenko
	5.  Soil Mechanics by Lambe and Whitman

Additional Requirements:
	1.  All work will be submitted electronicly.  My e-mail is
	    balkire@mtu.edu
	2.  All computational assignments will be done using Mathcad
	3.  There will be a term reports and presentations of  subjects
	    relate to elastic analysis as used in geotechnical engineering.  
	




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