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Apr 03, 2025
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Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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CIV 330 - Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering
This course will introduce students to the origin of soils and weight-volume relationships; Soil classification for engineering applications; soil compaction; flow of water through soils; stresses in soil masses: total, pore pressure, and effective stresses; stresses in soil masses due to external loads: foundations and excavations; consolidation of saturated clay deposits; time rate of consolidation; stresses in solids: Mohr’s circle; shear strength of soils and Mohr-Coulomb failure criteria; lateral earth pressure: at-rest conditions; in-situ tests: ground exploration for civil engineering applications.
3 credits
Prerequisite(s): MEC 363 ; CIV major
Corequisite(s): CIV 341
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