ENCI472-06S1 (U) Semester One 2006 (University Campus)

Engineering Geology 2

12 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2006
End Date: Sunday, 2 July 2006
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 5 March 2006
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 May 2006

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, construction materials and active processes influencing landscape development, and aims to identify the geotechnical constraints to site usage for a particular civil engineering purpose. This course develops aspects of engineering geology that are particularly relevant to New Zealand conditions and assumes an elementary understanding of geological principles (such as that given in ENCI271).

Topics include include site investigation techniques and practices, rock mechanics principles and practice, engineering and environmental geophysics, and engineering geology case studies. The course emphasises the geological rationale that underlies sound geotechnical practice, without requiring advanced
mathematical or theoretical treatment of the subject matter.

Field Trip
A compulsory five-day field trip to Otago with site visits including the Clyde, Manapouri and Upper Waitaki hydro-electric schemes during the last week of lecture break in April. Students may be required to pay approximately $165 towards the subsidised cost of travel and accomodation. An optional one-day field trip to the Castle Hill Basin - Arthurs Pass area, will be held during if numbers warrant.

Prerequisites

Timetable Note

This course involves 38 lectures + 30 lab hours + 5-day field trip

Course Coordinator

David Bell

Lecturers

Jarg Pettinga and Tim Davies

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Course Work 60%
Final Examination 40%

Course links

Library portal

Notes

Field Trip
A compulsory five-day field trip to Otago with site visits including the Clyde, Manapouri and Upper Waitaki hydro-electric schemes during the last week of lecture break in April. Students may be required to pay approximately $165 towards the subsidised cost of travel and accomodation. An optional one-day field trip to the Castle Hill Basin - Arthurs Pass area, will be held during if numbers warrant.

This course involves 38 lectures + 30 lab hours + 5-day field trip

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $690.00

International fee $2,417.00

* 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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