ENCI472-07S1 (C) Semester One 2007

Engineering Geology 2

12 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 26 February 2007
End Date: Sunday, 1 July 2007
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 11 March 2007
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 27 May 2007

Description

Geological data collection and input for engineering works. Engineering geology case studies. Elementary rock mechanics. Engineering and environmental geophysics. Landscape development processes and active tectonics.

Engineering geology is concerned primarily with site foundations, engineering construction practice, and active processes influencing landscape development. It aims to identify the geotechnical constraints on site usage for a particular civil engineering purpose, and ENCI472 develops aspects of engineering geology that are particularly relevant to New Zealand conditions. An elementary understanding of geological principles (such as that given in ENCI271) is assumed throughout, and students with NZCE background will normally have an adequate grounding in the subject. The topics covered in 2007 include site investigation techniques and practices, rock mechanics principles and practice, engineering geophysics applications and methods, and selected engineering geology case studies. The course emphasises a pragmatic geology-based approach to sound geotechnical practice, without requiring advanced theoretical treatment of the subject matter, and is case-study based.

Prerequisites

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

David Bell

Lecturer

David Nobes

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Site investigation exercise 04 May 2007 15% Site investigation - exercises involving site mapping and logging with rock characterisation
Field trip exercises 14 May 2007 30% Exercises completed during field trip and after supplementary reading
Engineering geophysics laboratory exercises 01 Jun 2007 15% Engineering geophysics laboratory exercises (based on laboratory 2 plus field trip)
Final examination 40% Final examination

Course links

Library portal

Notes

A compulsory five-day trip to Otago and inland Canterbury is scheduled for the period Tuesday 24 to Saturday 28 April inclusive, with site visits including the Clyde and Upper Waitaki hydro-electric schemes, as well as roading and other civil projects. The field trip will be based for 3 of the 4 nights at Twizel, with visits including Mt Cook and the central Waitaki during which a series of assessed field-based exercises will be undertaken.

A high standard of behaviour and self-discipline is expected during field trip and laboratory work. All students must comply with University discipline regulations, and obey instructions given on site for their own safety and the safety of others. Anyone disobeying regulations or instructions may be penalised, and could in extreme circumstances be removed from the course. Please be aware that in 2007 substantial work will undertaken on the field trip, including some evening write-up and/or data plotting, and that the field trip carries a weighting of 30% towards the final course grade.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $656.00

International fee $2,470.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Civil and Natural Resources Engineering .

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