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3.00 Credits
Shear strength of soils, including stress-strain and volume change behavior, stress paths, and drained and undrained behavior. Stability of slopes, including limit equilibrium approaches, analytical and numerical solutions. (Lec. 3) Pre: 381 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
Consolidation of soils, permeability; steady state and transient seepage; stress distributions; clay mineralogy. (Lec. 3) Pre: 381 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced methods and techniques of geotechnical testing. Behavior of granular and cohesive soils with determination of engineering properties. Interpretation, evaluation, and engineering applications of test data. Emphasis on shearing strength, consolidation, bearing capacity, earth pressures, seepage, and slope stability. (Lec. 3) Pre: 381 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
See Ocean Engineering 582.
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3.00 Credits
Applications of soil mechanics principles to analysis and design of pile foundations, drilled piers, flexible retaining structures, braced excavations, cofferdams, miscellaneous advanced foundation problems. (Lec. 3) Pre: 381 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
Overview of geosynthetic materials, properties, test methods, and current standards. Design methods involving geotextiles, geogrids, geonets, geomembranes, and geocomposites. Applications to problems in geomechanics, geo-environmental engineering, and transportation-related fields. (Lec. 3) Pre: 381 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
Vibration characteristics, wave propagation in soils, foundation vibration theory, foundation design for vibrating loads, vibration isolation, blast vibrations, dynamic soil properties, liquefaction potential, vibratory and dynamic compaction, computer applications. (Lec. 3) Pre: credit or concurrent enrollment in 483 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
Engineering properties of soil waste. Design of waste containment cover systems, use of geosynthetics, liner and drainage materials, slurry walls, landfills, and leachate collection systems. Landfill design for earthquakes and stability. (Lec. 3) Pre: 381 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
Hydrodynamics of fluid flow through porous media. Analytical methods for steady and unsteady seepage in aquifers; theoretical analysis with practical modification of seepage problems involving foundations, drainage structures, earth dams, and dewatering. (Lec. 3) Pre: 381 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
Quantitative methods of groundwater hydrology including determination of aquifer properties and yield. Modeling of groundwater systems for management quantity of water, movement of contaminants, and well design. Field and laboratory measurements. (Lec. 3) Pre: 370 and 381 or equivalent.
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