This course aims to provide the students with knowledge and skills related to the theoetical concepts of soil mechanics, in a more advanced curriculum than the undergraduate soils mechanics courses offered. Special emphasis is given to geomechanics related elasticity concepts to be used in analytical and numerical models, stress and strain paths, one dimensional consolidation theory as well as the whole consolidation phenomemon and finally, problematic soils.

1. The nature of soils. 2. Stresses within a soil mass, and stress states 3. Stress paths. 4. Stress-strain relationships. 5. Concepts from elastic theory. 6. Capillarity in soil. 7. Swelling and shrinkage. 8. Consolidation theory. 9. Settlement in granular soils