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CVE 541 Geotechnical Engineering I

500 levelEngineering & Technology8 topics

CVE 541 covers 8 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Site investigation and subsurface exploration
  2. Soil sampling methods
  3. Boussinesq and Westergaard stress theory
  4. Consolidation theory and oedometer testing
  5. Shear strength of soils
  6. Direct shear and triaxial testing
  7. Determination of soil parameters
  8. Interpretation of laboratory test results

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Site investigation and subsurface exploration

Site investigation and subsurface exploration deal with finding out the ground conditions before design and construction. For examinations, you must master the purpose of investigation, the stages and methods used, and how soil and rock information is collected, because safe foundation choice and reliable engineering decisions depend on correct ground data.

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