Course title
Advanced Study on Agriculture 1   [Advanced Study on Agriculture 1]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 2 
Department   Year   Semester Fall 
Course type Fall  Course code SP70000006
Instructor(s)
向後 雄二   [KOGO Yuji]
Facility affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention Research Office   Email address

Course description
In this lecture, we provide fundamental and advanced knowledge of geotechnical engineering in order to maintain and repair farmlands and agricultural facilities. Especially, we classify their damages due to natural disasters and study about theories and methods to repair the facilities on the base of environmental geotechnical engineering.
Expected Learning
You will obtain fundamental and advanced knowledge of geotechnical engineering in order to maintain and repair farmlands and agricultural facilities.
Course schedule
1st Introduction: Modeling and fundamental properties of soils
2nd Stress and strain
3rd Hydraulic properties of saturated soils
4th Hydraulic properties of unsaturated soils
5th Laboratory tests for unsaturated soils
6th Consolidation of unsaturated soils
7th Foundation of elastoplastic theory
8th Mechanical properties of saturated soils
9th Critical state of saturated soils (1)
10th Critical state of saturated soils (2)
11th Mechanical properties of unsaturated soils
12th Elastoplastic theory for unsaturated soils
13th Interpretations of unsaturated soil behavior
14th Initial boundary value problems for geoenvironmental issues
Prerequisites
It is desirable that students, who will take this lecture, have fundamental knowledge of soil mechanics.
Required Text(s) and Materials
Handouts
References
Soil Mechanics for unsaturated soils, Fredlund, D. G. and Rahardjo, H. Wiley-International Pub.
The mechanics of soils, Atkinson, J. H. and Bransby, P. L., McGRAW-HILL
Assessment/Grading
Final report (50%), Home-works (50%)
Message from instructor(s)
You may obtain aspects of environmental geotechnical engineering by taking this lecture.
Course keywords
Unsaturated soil mechanics, Natural disaster, Agricultural facilities, Environmental geotechnical engineering,
Office hours
13:00-14:00 weekday
Remarks 1
This lecture will be commenced from 9th Oct.
Remarks 2
Related URL
www.tuat.ac.jp/~kohgo/
Lecture Language
English
Language Subject
Last update
9/27/2018 2:07:12 PM