308556 (v.1) WASM Soil Mechanics Projects 431

Area:	Western Australian School of Mines
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	10.0
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 2 Hours Weekly
Individual Study:	1 x 8 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	303154 (v.3) WASM Mining Geomechanics 331 or any previous version
Syllabus:	Three research or design projects in engineering soil mechanics will be undertaken covering tailings dams, mine back fill and soil slope stability. The unit controller may consider other topics as well. The work involves developing and writing a proposal for each study, undertaking a literature search and a summary of the search, performing the work and writing each study up in the form of a formal professional engineering report. Lectures and seminars will be arranged from experts in the field from time to time and attendance is mandatory. Students are required to attend a mining geomechanics field trip to hone skills in geotechnical core logging, face mapping and data analysis. Satisfactory completion of this field trip component is a mandatory requirement for completion of the unit.
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*:	Informational *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
2008	Kalgoorlie Campus	Semester 1	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