Number of hours
- Lectures 20.0
- Projects -
- Tutorials 10.0
- Internship -
- Laboratory works 24.0
ECTS
ECTS 5.0
Goal(s)
- acquire an understanding of the elements involved in water transfers
into the soils and into the porous media, with particular focus on groundwater
- understand the concepts involved in slope stability and the role of soil characteristics and groundwater flow on slope stability
Responsible(s)
Louise CROCHEMORE
Content(s)
Introduction, definitions and measurement techniques
- Porous media
- Ponderal and volumetric water content
- Particle size in porous media
- Pressure head
- Retention curve
Bases of Groundwater Hydraulics
- Confined and unconfined aquifers
- Groundwater localisation
- Boussinesq equations
Transfers in porous media
- Hydraulic conductivity
- Darcy's law in unsaturated soils
- Saturated transfers in heterogeneous layered soils
- Boundary-value problems
- Continuity equation
- Flow nets
Groundwater in the hydrologic cycle
- Recharge and discharge
- Influence of topography and geology
Wells and pumping tests
- Well types
- Storage coefficient and transmissivity
- Pumping tests
- Steady radial flow
- Unsteady radial flow
Slope stability
- Definitions and mechanical concepts
- Infinite slope – impact of ground water flow
- Stability of a vertical slope
- Analytical method Taylor approach
- Slice method – Bishop approach
- FEM calculation
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Test
1st session
Continuous assessment (CC) : 3 lab works
Final exam (CT) : 2 hours written exam
2nd session
Another written exam will replace the first one (CT). No retake for CC.
EN 50% + ER 50%
The exam is given in english only 
Calendar
The course exists in the following branches:
- Curriculum - Master inter HCE - Semester 8 (this course is given in english only
)
Additional Information
Course ID : WEU2GHH6
Course language(s):
You can find this course among all other courses.
Bibliography
Course material on groundwater by Ghislain de Marsily (Université Paris VI)
Geotechnics by Desodt and Relffsteck (Ed. Dunod)
Groundwater by Freeze and Cherry, 1979. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs (N. J.)
Course material on hydrogeology from Humboldt State University, Department of Geology
Groundwater Hydraulics by Sato and Iwasa: Sato, Kuniaki., Iwasa, Yoshiaki., 2000. Groundwater Hydraulics, 1st ed. 2000. ed. Springer Japan, Tokyo.
French State controlled Master's degree
