Courses Handbook 2006 - [Archived]

303154 (v.1) WASM Geomechanics 332


Area:

WASM Mining Engineering Teaching Area

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

5.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 

Lecture:

1 x 4 Hours Weekly

Practical:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly
 

Syllabus:

Nature of soils. Particle size analysis. Plasticity of fine-grained soils. Phase relationships. Soil compaction. Flow of water in soils. Introduction to flownets. Effective stress. Sheer strength. Stresses in soils due to external loads. Active and passive earth pressure. Design of gravity and cantilever retaining walls. Introduction to types of foundations. Introduction to settlement. Bearing capacity of soils. Rock as an engineering material. State of stress in a solid body. Stress and strain, the fullstress and strain tensors, stress and strain invariants, rotation of axes, 3D Mohr circles, Hooke's law. The origin of in situ stress and strain. Intact rock, discontinuities and rock mass structure, failure mechanism and failure criteria (Mohr, Coulomb,Hoek and Brown). Stress around underground openings. Laboratory - field density measurement, liquid and plastic limit, compaction permeameter. Rock testing - UCS, UTS (Brazil test), triaxial determination of cohesion and internal angle of friction. Circular hole in a plate.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 

Field of Education:

030303 Mining Engineering

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2006 Kalgoorlie Campus Semester 1 Y        
2006 Kalgoorlie Campus Semester 2 Y Y      
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially
Online
Internal
refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully
Online
refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

 
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