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303154 (v.1) WASM Geomechanics 332
Area: |
WASM Mining Engineering Teaching Area |
Credits: |
25.0 |
Contact Hours: |
5.0 |
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| ** 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. ** |
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Lecture: |
1 x 4 Hours Weekly |
Practical: |
1 x 1 Hours Weekly |
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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 insitu stress and strain. Intact rock, discontinuities and rock mass structure, failure mechanism, 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. |
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| ** 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. ** |
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Field of Education: |
30303 Mining Engineering |
HECS Band (if applicable): |
2 |
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Extent to which this unit or thesis
utilises online information: |
Supplemental |
Result Type: |
Grade/Mark |
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Availability |
| Year |
Location |
Period |
Internal |
Area External |
Central External |
| 2004 |
Kalgoorlie Campus |
Semester 2 |
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Y |
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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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