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Geomechanics - CVEN4203
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.civeng.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite/s: CVEN2201, CVEN3201.
 
 
Excluded: CVEN9793
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

The fundamentals of the effective stress concept, clay mineralogy, seepage analysis and Laplace Equation, basic and advanced theories of consolidation, nonlinearity and Biotls theorem, critical state soil mechanics, fundamentals of continuum mechanics, theory of elasticity, constitutive relationships and failure criteria for real soils, soil plasticity and cam-clay model, theorem collapse, fundamentals of unsaturated soils mechanics.

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