CIVE 52Geotechnical Mechanics
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Last listed
- 1966–67
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1963–64 to 1966–67; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
The mechanics of soil systems and materials. Definition of stress: pore water pressure and effective stress. Fluid flow through soils: permeability, two dimensional flow, Laplace’s equation, use of flow nets, uplift pressure, piping, heave. Soil defromation: time-dependent and timeindependent situations, theory of one-dimensional consolidation, stress distribution, settlement analysis. Earth pressure: yielding of ideal soil materials, statics and kinematics of soil systems, earth pressures against retaining walls, stability of slopes, bearing capacity of foundations.
As printed in the 1964–65 to 1966–67 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
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How it read in each calendar from 1963–64 to 1966–67, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1964–65 to 1966–67 2 calendars
The mechanics of soil systems and materials. Definition of stress: pore water pressure and effective stress. Fluid flow through soils: permeability, two dimensional flow, Laplace’s equation, use of flow nets, uplift pressure, piping, heave. Soil defromation: time-dependent and timeindependent situations, theory of one-dimensional consolidation, stress distribution, settlement analysis. Earth pressure: yielding of ideal soil materials, statics and kinematics of soil systems, earth pressures against retaining walls, stability of slopes, bearing capacity of foundations.
1963–64 1 calendar
Titled Soil Mechanics.
Identification and classification of soils, index properties, capillarity and permeability, frost action, compaction, compressibility and consolidation, stress distribution, shear strength, pore pressure perameters, character of natural soil deposits, subsurface exploration and sampling, case histories. The lecture course is supplemented by a series of laboratory experiments on the techniques and interpretation of soil tests.
3 lectures, 3 hours laboratory, one term.
Prerequisite: CE 51.