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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Engineering : Civil and Environmental Engineering

421-430 Geotechnical Engineering

Credit Points:

When taken from Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering:
8.00
When taken from Civil Engineering (Science), Faculty of Science:
12.5

Coordinator:

Mr J R Styles

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

26 hours of lectures, 13 hours of tutorials and 6 hours of laboratory work

Objectives:

At the conclusion of this course students will be able to: identify areas requiring investigation when dealing with construction involving soils and rocks; reduce a complex soil/rock profile to one that is amenable to analysis; select an analysis/design procedure appropriate to the problem being posed; appreciate the significance to their final solution of assumptions/simplifications made in their analysis/design.

Content:

Compaction. Analyses of the stability of slopes. Site investigation. Foundation engineering: settlement and bearing capacity of shallow and deep foundations.

Assessment:

A two-hour examination (80%); an assignment of up to 3000 words (10%); laboratory work (10%).
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