Area: | Department of Civil Engineering |
Credits: | 25.0 |
Contact Hours: | 5.0 |
Lecture: | 1 x 3 Hours Weekly |
Tutorial: | 1 x 1 Hours Weekly |
Laboratory: | 1 x 1 Hours Weekly |
Syllabus: | Civil project economics - principles of financial establishment and control of construction projects. Economic assessment of engineering projects. Cost benefit and other evaluation techniques. Selection of construction plant and equipment. Principles oftender appraisal. Case studies. Risk and uncertainty. Geotechnical engineering - consolidation and consolidation settlements, soil consolidation and settlement problems, soil consolidation. Preconsolidation and estimation of the preconsolidation pressure. Settlement computations. Slope stability. Stability of infinite slopes, finite slopes. Slope with water in the tensile crack. Lateral earth pressure, Rankine's theory. Diagrams for lateral earth pressure distribution against retaining walls. Coulomb's earth pressure theory. Effect of wall friction on passive pressure. |
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Unit Outcomes: | The student will gain an understanding of stress analysis, the study of stress analysis of soils under applied loading. Strength and deformation characteristics will be illustrated by laboratory and model tests. The student will also gain an understanding of cost benefit analysis for civil engineering works. |
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: | Australian Standards. AS1289 Testing Soils for Engineering Purposes. Lamb T W and Whitman R V. (1977). Soil Mechanics. Wiley. Lee I K, White W and Ingle O G. (1983). Geotechnical Engineering. New York: Pitman. |
Unit Texts: | Geotechnical Engineering III. Curtin University of Technology. Press M J. Cost Benefit Analysis. Curtin University of Technology. |
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Field of Education: | 30900 Civil Engineering (Narrow Grouping) | HECS Band (if applicable): | 2 |
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Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information: | Not Online | Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
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Availability
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 2 | 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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