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Geotechnical engineering I

K McKenry

4 points
* 26 lecture hours, 13 hours tutorials and 13 hours laboratories
* First semester
* Caulfield

Objectives The development of competence in geotechnical engineering as applied to civil and construction engineering.

Synopsis Soil composition, clay minerals, soil condition, compaction, pore pressure and effective stress, permeability and seepage, rock-forming minerals and petrology, structural geology and tectonics, geomorphology.

Assessment Examination (3 hours): 80%
* Assignment: 20%

Prescribed texts

Das B M Principles of geotechnical engineering Kent, 1990