Area: | WASM Mining Engineering Teaching Area |
Credits: | 12.5 |
Contact Hours: | 25.0 |
Lecture: | 1 x 25 Hours Weekly |
Syllabus: | Laboratory testing of rock samples - uniaxial and triaxial testing, tensile strength, hardness and abrasiveness tests, fracture toughness tests, post failure behaviour, elastic wave velocities. Geotechnical instrumentation in underground and open pit mining - stress and displacement measurements. Monitoring, analysis and prediction of rock mass behaviour. |
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Unit Outcomes: | On completion of this unit students will have - Understood laboratory testing of rock samples (uniaxial and triaxial testing, tensile strength, hardness and abrasiveness tests, fractures toughness tests, post failure behaviour, elastic wave velocities). The ability to Apply geotechnical instrumentation in underground and open pit mining (stress and displacement measurements). Monitored, analysed and predicted rock mass behaviour. |
Texts and references listed below are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Some units taught offshore are modified at selected locations. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information and approved offshore variations to unit information before finalising study and textbook purchases. |
Unit References: | No prescribed references. |
Unit Texts: | No prescribed texts. |
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Unit Assessment Breakdown: | Over 50% continuous assessment, Less than 50% examination. This is by grade/mark assessment. |
Field of Education: | 30303 Mining Engineering | HECS Band (if applicable): | 2 |
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Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information: | Informational | Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
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Availability
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | | 2004 | Kalgoorlie Campus | Semester 1 | Y | | | | 2004 | Kalgoorlie Campus | Summer Period | Y | | | | 2004 | Kalgoorlie Campus | Trimester 1 | Y | | |
Area
External | refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |
Central
External | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |
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