CE 477 — Geotechnical Engineering
BSc BSc Civil Engineering · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Site Investigation: Introduction, timing, nature, components, preliminary experience, detailed sub-surface exploration; methods permitting visual examination; in-situ examination, sampling, types of boring field testing, borehole testing, non-borehole testing, geophysical exploration, reporting; Deep Foundation: Piles and Piled Foundations, Classification of piles, Material, Methods of load transfer, Method of construction, Load carrying capacity of piles, Static methods and dynamic methods, Settlement of single piles, Settlement of pile groups, Drilled caissons; Stability Of Excavations: Earth pressure on braced excavations Stability of excavations in soils; Tropical Soils: Introduction to unsaturated soils, Engineering implications of tropical weathering; Rock Slope Stability Analysis: Rock strength and yield, Time dependency, Discontinuities in Rocks, Behaviour of Rock Masses; Environmental impact assessment.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Year Four
Other courses on this programme
- CE 452 — Structural Dynamics
- CE 457 — Drainage Systems
- CE 458 — Water Resources Engineering
- CE 461 — Engineering Economy & Entrepreneurship Development
- CE 462 — Construction Management
- CE 463 — Water & Waste Water Treatment
- CE 464 — Environmental Quality Engineering
- CE 467 — Highway Engineering
- CE 468 — Transportation Engineering
- CE 471 — Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
- CE 473 — Development Engineering
- CE 475 — Systems Engineering
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