10764 (v.5) WASM Rock Testing and Instrumentation 602

Area:	WASM Mining Engineering Teaching Area
Credits:	12.5
Contact Hours:	25.0
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 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 and elastic wave velocities. Geotechnical instrumentation in underground and open pit mining - stress and displacement measurements. Monitoring, analysis and prediction of rock mass behaviour.
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:	030303 Mining Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal
2008	Kalgoorlie Campus	Trimester 1	Y
2008	Kalgoorlie Campus	Study Period 2	Y
2008	Kalgoorlie Campus	Study Period 4	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