Mine Geotechnical Engineering - MINE4310
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
School: School of Mining Engineering
Course Outline: http://www.mining.unsw.edu.au/
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: MINE3310
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
At the end of this course the student will:
- Be equipped with the ability to recognise the major geotechnical applications and their significance within the mainstream mining systems and conditions - soil and rock, both underground and surface.
- Understand the principles of geotechnical design.
- Have a sound working knowledge of fundamental geotechnical mechanisms and principles, and ability to idealise the geotechnical aspects of mine field problems.
- Be capable of recognising the role and importance of these principles, both from a technical perspective, and from the risk and operational management perspective.
- Understand the slope engineering process.
- Have ability to identify basic slope failure mechanisms.
- Have the ability to calculate the factor of safety of basic slope failure mechanisms.