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- PHYSICAL AND INDEX PROPETIES OF SOILS; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; ATTERBERG LIMITS;
- PERMEABILITY OF SOILS; DARCY’S LAW; LABORATORY PERMEABILITY TESTS;
- STRESSES (TOTAL AND EFFETTIVE) IN SOILS;
- COMPRESSIBILITY OF SOIL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL CONSOLIDATION TEST; LOAD-DEFORMATION CHARACTERISTICS OF SOILS;
- SHEAR STREANGTH OF SOIL; MOHR’S THEORY OF FAILURE; DIRECT SHEAR TEST; TRIAXIAL TEST;
- STABILITY OF SLOPES; INFINITY SLOPES; METHOD OF SLICES (BISHOP’S SIMPLIFIED METHOD);
- CLASSIFICATION AND INDEX PROPERTIES OF ROCKS;
- ROCK STRENGTH AND FAILURE CRITERIA;
- APPLICATIONS OF ROCK MECHANICS TO ROCK SLOPE ENGINEERING.

LAMBE T.W. & WHITMANN R.W., SOIL MECHANICS, J. WILEY & SONS, LONDON
LANCELLOTTA R., GEOTECNICA, ZANICHELLI, BOLOGNA.
COLOSELLI COLOMBO. ELEMENTI DI GEOTECNICA. ZANICHELLI. BOLOGNA
INTRODUCTION TO ROCK MECHANICS. R.E. GOODMAN.
VARIOUS MATERIAL PROVIDED BY THE TEACHER.