CS4001:03
Foundation Engineering and Rock Mechanics
| Townsville | HECS Band 2 |
39 hours lectures, 39 hours tutorials and practicals. Semester 1.
Foundation Engineering: foundation analysis and design – bearing capacity, two-dimensional consolidation settlement, settlement of shallow foundations on sand; bearing capacity and settlement of pile foundations; earth retaining structures – rigid retaining wall, sheet piles, braced excavations and reinforced earth walls; introduction to reliability based design.
Rock Engineering: engineering behaviour of rock and rock discontinuities; hemisphere projection technique with applications to rock slope stability; insitu rock stress and its measurement; introductory underground opening design. Case histories and special topics.
Learning Objectives:
- design shallow and pile foundations;
- estimate consolidation settlements;
- select appropriate types of earth retaining structures;
- apply hemisphere projection techniques to assesment of rock slope stability;
- appreciate the role of rock material and discontinuity strength in the behaviour of rock slopes and underground openings;
- appreciate the role of case histories in geo-engineering practice.
Assessment by examination (50%-70%); on-course assessment (30%-50%).