Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Civil Engineering and Built Environment
Learning Methods
Lecture
Practical
Tutorial
Module Offerings
4204CIV-SEP-CTY
Aims
To gain an entry level understanding of soil and rock mechanics and soil interaction in engineering applications.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Demonstrate their understanding of the physical and engineering characteristics of typically encountered soils and rocks.
2.
Evaluate the significance of water in soils, its movement and effects upon soil properties and strength parameters.
3.
Apply their understanding of the principles involved in assessing the stability of slopes to the design of foundations and earth retaining structures under total stress conditions.
4.
Apply appropriate geotechnical understanding and analysis to soil loading and stress analysis problems.
5.
Collect and process data from laboratory experiments and produce a formal written report with conclusions.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Site investigation, use of historical resources, legislative background, techniques, service avoidance, importance, health and safety.
Classification of soils to appropriate standards and the techniques to classify soils of different types effectively
Properties of soils, cohesive, granular how the properties differ.
Compaction of soils and the rationale behind it, compaction techniques, calculation of air-void content. Soil improvement in practice.
Geological structures, types, classification, weathering classifications, strengths and engineering properties of rock masses. Rock cycle.
Hydrological cycle, hydrostatic forces. Principles of total and effective stress analysis. Water flow in soils, flow nets, flow and pore pressure calculations.
Stress analysis calculations with different methods of stress increase examined. Basic foundation principles and design, piling techniques, pad foundations, contact pressure.
Module Overview:
This module provides you with an introduction through practical work to the composition, deposition, and behaviour of engineering soil. The module makes extensive use of mathematics and engineering principles. You will be supported through lectures, case studies, tutorials, and analytical exercises.
This module provides you with an introduction through practical work to the composition, deposition, and behaviour of engineering soil. The module makes extensive use of mathematics and engineering principles. You will be supported through lectures, case studies, tutorials, and analytical exercises.
Additional Information:The module provides an introduction through practical work to the composition, deposition and behaviour of engineering soil. The module makes extensive use of mathematics and engineering principles, this is supported by lectures, case studies, tutorials and analytical exercises.
Where this module is part of a Degree Apprenticeship programme, the knowledge learning outcomes are K2 and K4, the skills learning outcomes are S3.