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| Diploma |
Year module |
NQF level: 8 |
Credits: 12 |
| Module presented in English |
Module presented online |
| Purpose: The purpose is to make students aware of the importance of soil properties and their influence on geotechnical engineering. Students completing this module will be able to:
-Distinguish between the different types of natural soils.
-Identify and define the problems associated with different soils.
-Provide a number of alternative engineering solutions to the problem soil encountered.
-Determine actual stresses in soils, aspects of consolidation in soils, shear strength in soils, and lateral earth pressures.
-Memorize the types of foundations and their applications, retaining walls and carryout any necessary calculations where they are required.
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