10764 (v.5) WASM Rock Testing and Instrumentation 602
| 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. |
| Text and references listed above are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information. |
| 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. |
| 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 | | | |
Current as of: February 2, 2004
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