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Mining Geomechanics - MINE3300
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Mining Engineering
 
 
Contact: 
Hagan,Paul
Watson,John Ormiston
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Offered: Session One
 
 
Fee Band: 2
 
 

Description

This course provides an understanding of the principles of soil and rock mechanics and the impacts of these disciplines in mining engineering practice. Soil Mechanics: nature of soil, groundwater flow, stability of slopes, tailings storage facilities, earth retaining structures, shallow foundations, consolidation, compaction, liquefaction. Rock Mechanics: principles applied to mining; stress, strain, deformational behaviour and stiffness; time dependency and stress in rock; rock properties, rock failure criteria, discontinuities in rock, rock mass classification, stresses around excavations, laboratory techniques and experiments.

Assumed Knowledge: MINE2320

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