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Medium Of Instructions	Mode Of Learning	Mode Of Delivery
English	Self Study	Video and Text Based

Course Overview

Advanced Soil Mechanics program is an excellent course for anyone who wants to brush up and reinforce their foundational concepts learned during their undergraduate training. It deals with various topics related to geotechnical engineering that are studied by postgraduate students from the basics. Topics such as continuum mechanics and geomechanical characteristics of soil will be explored.

Advanced Soil Mechanics certification is an elective course in the field of civil engineering and structural analysis. It has been approved by the All India Council for Technical Education as an FDP for the faculty development program. The course syllabus has been developed by IIT Guwahati in association with Swayam.

Advanced Soil Mechanics is a twelve-week long course that employs assignments and a final exam to motivate students and help them evaluate their progress. The course also offers an e-certificate which will be awarded after completing the course successfully. While all the lectures will be held online, the exam will be held in person at the various designated exam centers.

The Highlights

Elective course in civil engineering and structural analysis
Undergraduate/postgraduate course
Twelve week-long online course
Verifiable e-certificate available
IIT Guwahati educator
The website offers a list of books and references for additional study
AICTE approved
Final proctored exam
Assignments

Programme Offerings

Books and references for additional study
Verifiable e-certificate available
IIT Guwahati educator
assignments
AICTE approved
Undergraduate/Postgraduate Course
Elective course in civil engineering and structural analysis
12 week-long online course

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees Informations	Certificate Availability	Certificate Providing Authority
INR 1000	yes	IIT Guwahati (IITG)

Advanced Soil Mechanics training does not have an admission or enrolment fee. Candidates need to pay an exam fee if they want to qualify to appear for the final exam.

Advanced Soil Mechanics program fee structure

Course Name	Fee
Advanced Soil Mechanics (Final exam qualification)	Rs. 1,000

Eligibility Criteria

Participants who want to study in the Advanced Soil Mechanics program have different eligibility criteria depending on their educational qualifications. For postgraduate students, there are no prerequisites. Undergraduate students need to undergo a basic course in geotechnical engineering beforehand.

To qualify for a certificate, candidates need to achieve a minimum final score of 40/100. However, this is preconditioned wherein candidates need to score a minimum of 10/25 in their average assignment score and a minimum of 30/75 in the final exam score. The final score on the certificate will be the summation of the exam score and the assignment score.

What you will learn

Civil Engineering skills

Advanced Soil Mechanics program will clear any lingering doubts and reinforce the foundation of the following topics:

Basic soil mechanics concepts
Soil strength behavior
Stress-strain response
Continuum mechanics
Topics related to geotechnical engineering

Who it is for

Civil EngineerGeotechnical engineer

The intended audience for the course of Advanced Soil Mechanics is undergraduate students of civil engineering and postgraduate and doctoral candidates of geotechnical engineering. However, anyone who is interested in the course is encouraged to join.

Admission Details

Advanced Soil Mechanics by Swayam has the below-given admission process for enrolment.

Go to the Swayam website that features the course at https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc21_ce23/preview and select the 'Sign-in/Register' button on the top right-hand side corner of the page.
Sign in using an email address and password or log in with credentials. An alternative way to skip the sign-in/login process is to use a Microsoft, Google, or Facebook account.
Fill the online application and pay the exam fee is required.
Once the process has been fulfilled, forms scrutinized and payment confirmed, the admission process is complete.

Application Details

Advanced Soil Mechanics program's online application form can be accessed by logging in or signing in to the Swayam website. One can use the Microsoft, Facebook, or Google account or a valid email address and password for the same.

The Syllabus

Introduction to course contents

Transformation of the stress tensor
Stress acting on a plane
Stress acting on a plane example
Stress at a point-Cauchy stress
Stress at a point-Stress tensor

Stress invariants
Principal stresses and Eigenvectors
Cause-effect relationship
Relationship between stress invariants
Strain in soil

Important constitutive relationship
3D to 2D idealization
Mathematical formulation of plane stress, plane strain
Mathematical formulation of axisymmetric conditions
Summary of Module 1

Basics of shear strength
Stress representation
Shear strength cohesive soil
Shear strength cohesive soil - Stress-strain
Shear strength granular soil

Pore water pressure and Skempton’s equation
Overall pore water pressure parameter
Pore water pressure -plane strain-effect of sampling
Pore water pressure estimation

Triaxial test
Interpretation triaxial test-UU UCS
Interpretation triaxial test-CU
Interpretation triaxial test-CD

Some additional aspects of shear strength
Summary of Module 2

Module 3 Stress path

Stress path and representation
Failure line in stress path
Stress path-some common cases
Stress path-some common cases

Stress path-triaxial test-drained
Stress path-triaxial test-undrained
Stress path-additional undrained case
Stress path-field cases

Stress path-field cases
Stress path problems
Summary of Module 3

Module 4 Critical state soil mechanics

Introduction-Critical state soil mechanics

Introduction-Critical state soil mechanics
CSSM-2 D representation
Peak state

Soil yielding
Cam clay
Modified Cam clay
Prediction of soil behavior from MCCM

Prediction of soil behavior from MCCM
Strain from MCCM
State boundary surface
CSSM problems
Summary of Module 4

Evaluation process

Advanced Soil Mechanics training has an e-certificate which will be awarded to participants who fulfill the below-given criteria. Participants must submit all the completed assignments as they carry 25% of the final score. 8 of the 12 best assignments will be taken into consideration. Participants must also appear for a final exam which carries 75% of the final score. The final score will be the summation of the exam score and the assignment score. The passing score is 40/100.

However, there is an additional condition. Participants who score less than 10/25 in assignments or less than 30/75 in the final exam will forfeit their certification. This condition supersedes the final calculated score, even if it is above 40/10.