Week 1: Geoengineering: Introduction, definition and phase relations, components, advances, and relevance, stress and deformation concepts and engineering properties of geomaterials
Week 2: Water and its Impact on geoground: Classification of water, interaction of water-geoground, mechanics of interaction, impact on durability of geoground and geomaterial.
Week 3: Geotechnical investigations for settlements and ground-foundation interaction: Elements and types of infrastructure and forces acting foundations ground, types of foundations and footings, ground-foundation interaction, differential settlement, retaining walls, earth pressures.
Week 4: Underground spaces and ground control problems: Elements of underground space structures, excavation methods, geotechnical investigation, behaviour of geoground and types of ground control problems such as, subsidence, convergence, instabilities.
Week 5: Ground pressure and anchoring of strata: Parameters for evaluation of ground pressure, treatments, grouting, support system, mechanics of reinforcement of weak zones by rock bolting.
Week 6: Geotechniques of cold region: Characteristics and behaviour of geoground, ground control problems, and behaviour of glaciated slopes, mitigation engineering structures.
Week 7: Geotechnical aspects of resources: Mineral exploration and extractions, geotechnical issues related to extractions of mineral resources, Mine fire and related geotechnical issues, groundwater exploration and extractions, and groundwater extraction induced geotechnical problems.
Week 8: Energy Geotechniques: Types of energy, classification, Engineering aspects of gas hydrate, Geoengineering view of geothermal energy, hydropower and ocean energy, Marine hydrogen energy and possible techniques of its extraction, Concept of green energy and geotechntechnical challenges, shale gas, geothermal energy, atomic energy, strategic mineral as energy support.
Week 9: Geotechnical facets of energy source reservoir: Concept of green energy, green energy sources and geotechntechnical challenges, Classification energy source reservoirs, geomechanical characterization of conventional and unconventional geothermal reservoirs, and petroleum reservoir, shale gas reservoirs and coal bed methane reservoirs and associate geotechnical issues and solutions.
Week 10: Climate Change and Environmental Geotechniques: Climate change scenario and impact, geoengineering implication in climate change analysis and mitigation, geotechnical facets of carbon dioxide capture, sequestration, and uses, geotechnical issues and solutions in nuclear waste disposal.
Week 11: Natural Hazards, Analysis and Mitigation: Mass wasting, Erosion, Slope stability analysis of natural and engineered slopes, Earthquake hazards analysis and mitigation, induced seismicity, concept of microseismic zonation, aseismic design of buildings, volcanic hazard and its impact and mitigation, flood hazards and river bank slope protection, coastal hazards, design and evaluation of mitigation engineering and natural structures.
Week 12: Rivers, Lakes, Coastal and Quaternary Geotechniques: land forms, active neotectonics, river hydraulics and associate problems, geotechnical applications, geotechnical issues with linking of rivers, shore dynamics, wave and current dynamics, geotechnical issues related to onshore and offshore regions.
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