Courses Handbook 2009

302811 (v.1) Geotechnical Engineering 466


Area: Department of Civil Engineering
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 3.0
** 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 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 308886 (v.1) Geotechnical Engineering 368 or any previous version
Syllabus: Shallow foundations design. Bearing capacities of soils, safe, net and ultimate; factor of safety; mass concrete footings; footing resisting lift; column type footings. Two-way footing concentrically or eccentrically loaded; AS 3600 code requirements; design loads; critical section for shear; punching shear and bending shear, anchor bolts. Combined footings; design of strap or cantilever footings. Design of mat foundations. Design of retaining walls. Design of reinforced retaining walls. Sheet pile walls design. Residential footings design.
** 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: 030911 Geotechnical Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*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
2009 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2009 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 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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