To provide an understanding of stress analysis that can be applied to geotechnical engineering.Stress transformation and principal stresses in three dimensions; strain-displacement relations in three dimensions; strain transformation and principal strains in three dimensions; equations of equilibrium, boundary conditions; strain compatibility and the Airy stress function; stress in thick walled tubes under pressure; stresses around circular tunnel; anisotropic elasticity; the equivalent continuum; elastoplasticity.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to analyse the states of stress and strain in a material for the general three dimensional case, solve simple boundary value problems of plane strain for an elastic material, and idealise a mass of rock or soil as an anisotropic or elastoplastic material as required in the application of computational methods of stress analysis.

Assumed Knowledge: MINE2310