CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK FALL 2003
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
CE 345: SOIL MECHANICS
INSTRUCTOR: Prof. George Mylonakis
102 Steinman Hall, tel 650-8011
e-mail:
Internet: www-ce.engr.ccny.cuny.edu/course/ce345/ce345.html
COURSE OUTLINE
CLASS SCHEDULE
M-W 9.30 - 10:20 S-17 (theory)
W 2:00 - 4:50 S-377 / T-B52 (exercises & lab)
TEXTBOOK
Principles of Geotechnical Engineering, by B. Das, 5th Edition, PWS Publishing
SUGGESTED READING TEXTBOOKS
1. An Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering, by R.D. Holtz & W.D. Kovacs, Prentice Hall 1981 (focuses on soil behavior; among the best books available)
2. Soil Mechanics, by W. Lambe & R.V. Whitman, John Wiley, 1969 (perhaps the best textbook ever written in the subject)
3. Soil Mechanics & Foundations, by M. Budhu, John Wiley, 2000 (modern book; has several typos in the current edition)
4. Soil Mechanics, by John N. Cernica, John Wiley, 1995
5. Soil Mechanics: Concepts & Applications by William Powrie, Chapman & Hall 1996 (complete, includes several advanced topics)
6. An Introduction to the Mechanics of Soils and Foundations, J. Atkinson, Mc-Graw Hill, 1993 (Concise, includes some advanced topics)
7. Soil Mechanics, by R.F. Craig, 6th Edition, 1997 (concise, inexpensive)
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
The students have to master:
1. The material presented in class (taking notes will be absolutely necessary)
2. The material taught from the Das Book
3. The experiments performed in the laboratory
The course will include 1 midterm exam, 1 quiz exam, 6 to 7 laboratory experiments, and a final exam. Homework and some class problems will also be given (to be only spot graded). The results obtained from the laboratory should be processed in a computer and a report be prepared by each student individually for each experiment.
The final grade will be calculated as:
Final Grade = 0.3 * midterm + 0.3 * final + 0.1* quiz + 0.2 * lab + 0.1 * hw
The grading policy will be as follows:
> 80 A
80-70 B
70-60 C
60-50 D
< 50 F