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Semester: | 7th | - Lecturing: | 2 | ECTS: | 4 |
Course Type: | Elective | - Practical | - | Prerequisites: | - |
Course Code: | E7221 | - Laboratory | 1 | Expected | - |
eClass URL | ➽ | Total Hours of | 8 |
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It is a specialized course that deals with specific chapters of engineering geology relating to the design, construction and operation of various engineering structures such as road construction, tunnels, slopes, mining projects, foundations and retaining structures.
TUNNELS (Geotechnical site investigation, Rock Mass Classification systems, Design principles and construction methods – NATM and TBM, Ground support methods, Stability analysis, Ground support interaction analysis, Design in special situations, Monitoring systems, Failures and emergency measures ); UNDERGROUND AND SURFACE MINING (Underground and Surface Mines, Quarries, Mining Methods, Geotechnical factors in the design of underground and surface mining projects); TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE – ROAD CONSTRUCTION (Geotechnical site investigation and reports, Pavements, Embankments, Cut&Covers, Retaining walls, Bridges); SLOPES (Soil and rock slope stability analysis using PC: plane and wedge failure, rockfall, methods of slices, probabilistic analysis, stability of slopes under seismic loading, Design considerations for slopes, Technologies for slope stabilization, Monitoring systems); FOUNDATIONS (Foundations: functions and requisites, shallow and deep foundations, choice of foundation type, general principles of design, Bearing capacity of shallow foundations: types of failures, bearing capacity analysis, shallow foundation design using Eurocode 7, Settlement analysis, Deep foundations: type of piles, load carrying capacity of single piles and pile groups, settlement of single piles and pile groups); EARTH STRUCTURES (Embankments, Compaction, Preloading, Soil reinforcement, Geosynthetics).