Non-conventional tools of teaching are effective in delivering deep learning scientific facts as well skills associated with disciplines. A well-known method to promote student engagement and general is the use games classrooms. Games can provide a flexible option that could engage students, create active experiences, enable them experiment safe playful environments. This paper presents UnSaLuD...

This Keynote Paper is concerned with the fundamental mechanics of granular materials with a particular reference to non-coaxial behaviour. The non-coaxial behaviour refers to the non-coincidence of principal stress directions and corresponding principal plastic strain rate directions during plastic deformation. At present, the majority of soil models used in geotechnical practice are those of a...

Geocell protective slope is a kind of important ecological protection form, which is widely used in the geotechnical engineering field. Based on the finite element software ABAQUS, and combining with protective slope body’s mechanics performance in shallow soil, the finite element model of geocell slope protection is established under the conditions of rainfall seepage, and then we simulate the...

The mechanical response of cohesionless granular materials under monotonic loading is studied by performing molecular dynamic simulations. The diversity of shapes of soil grains is modelled by using randomly generated convex polygons as granular particles. Results of the biaxial test obtained for dense and loose media show that samples achieve the same void ratio at large strains independent of...

C E 860 Advanced Fluid Mechanics 3(3,0) Laminar and turbulent flows; boundary layer and free shear flows (jets, wakes, etc.); descriptions of velocity, shear stress and pressure measurements, and aerodynamic drag. C E 861 Mechanics of Sediment Transport 3(3,0) Characterization of sediments; physical principles governing fluvial, estuarial, and coastal transport of cohesionless and cohesive sedi...

The principle of effective stress is the keystone modern physics, which becomes basic difference between soil mechanics and general solid mechanics. Terzaghi's has been controversial since it was put forward, especially for calculation stress, many scholars have revised from different aspects. pore pressure reduced in all modified formulas, that is, need to be multiplied by a factor. However, v...