421-209 Geomechanics 1

421-103 Engineering Statics.

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; earch pressure; and active, passive and at-rest earch pressures. applications in environmental engineering and civil engineering.

One 3-hour end of semester written examination (70%), two assignments of up to 2000 words each due at half and two-thirds of the way through the semester (20%), together with two laboratory reports of up to 1000 words each scheduled throughout the semester (10%).