CIVE 261 - Soils and Materials 1

Credits: 4 Total Hours: 75

Restricted to students in Civil Engineering Technology
Students learn to identify soils and perform standard methods of measurement of soil properties. Applications such as geosynthetics, filter designs, seepage analysis and methods for dealing with geologic hazards and problem soils are presented. Soil properties and surface loading are used to calculate sub-surface soil stresses. The theory and application of soils consolidation is introduced.

Prerequisites
All of:

C in CIVE 192

Pre or Co-requisites
All of:

C in CIVE 271