ANALYSIS AND MATHEMATICAL MODELLING IN GEOTECHNICS

Porous media mechanics: Classification of soils, rocks and rock masses; Physical state and stress state in porous media; Behaviour of soils and rocks in relation to solid-fluid interactions; Strength and stiffness of geomaterials; Simply and advanced constitutive models for geomechanics; Fundamental equations for porous media.
Methods for geotechnical analysis; Limit Equilibrium Methods for plastic state conditions and for landslides, Continuos and discontinuos approaches; Numerical integration with mesh-based and particle-based methods, Discrete Element models and other advanced methods