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 421-209 Geomechanics 1

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

2

Coordinator

Mr J Styles

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

42 hours of lectures and tutorials, 6 hours of laboratory classes

Subject Description

Topics include soil and rock identification, mineral composition and classification; discontinuities in rock masses; water in soil; principle of effective stress; stress transmission; confined and unconfined flow of water through soils; Darcy's law, seepage; dispersive and swelling soils; compressibility of soil and settlement of structures; consolidation; strength of soils and rocks; earth pressure; and active, passive and at-rest earth pressures.

Assessment

An assignment of up to 2000 words (10%); A 3-hour written examination (80%); Laboratory work (10%).

Prescribed Texts
  • T W Lambe and R V Whitman, Soil Mechanics. (SI edn) Wiley, 1977.
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