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CIVL4121 Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering

Unit OutlineLectures & TutorialsAssignments & LabsLecture Notes from Previous Units 
Click here CIVL4121 for Handbook entry.

Notice Board

WeekBeginningNotices
1 (30)20 July
2 (31)27 July
3 (32)3 August
4 (33)10 August
5 (34)17 August
6 (35)24 August
7 (36)31 August
(37)7 SeptemberNON TEACHING BREAK
8 (38)14 September
9 (39)21 September
10 (40)28 September
11 (41)5 October
12 (42)12 October
13 (43)19 October
2 NovemberProvisional Tutorial Marks

Lectures & Tutorials

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Week

Beginning

Lectures

 Tutorials 

Tutorial

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

Sheets 

 Solutions 

1

20 July

Outline

 Ground Improvement (2/page) 
 Ground Improvement (6/page)

 

 Tutorial 1
CPT Data
 Zhang paper 

Tut 1 Solution 

2

27 July

 

 

 

Tutorial 2 

Tut 2 Solution 

3

3 August

 Compaction 

 

 Dams (a) 

Tutorial 3

Tut 3 Solution 

4

10 August

Dams (b) 

 

 

Tutorial 4 

Tut 4 Solution

5

17 August

 Field Permeability Testing 

 

 

Tutorial 5 

Tut 5 Solution

6

24 August

Contaminant Transport   

 Using CTRAN/W

  

Tutorial 6  

Tut 6 Solution 

7

31 August

Slope stability  

  

 

Tutorial 7  

 

 

7 September

NON

 TEACHING

BREAK

  

 

8

14 September  

 

 

 Tailings

 

 

9

21 September 

 

 

 

Tutorial 8

 

10

28 September

Landfills   

 

 

Tutorial 9 

 

11

5 October

Cutoff walls

Electroosmosis

 Pavements 

 Tutorial 10

Tut 10 Solution 

12

12 October

 

 Pavement Design Example

 

Tutorial 11 

Tut 11 Solution 

13

19 October

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

Assignments & Labs

Relevant Lecture Notes from Previous Units

Permeability (CIVL 2121)
Clay mineralogy (CIVL 2121)
Flow nets (CIVL 2121)
Consolidation (CIVL 2122)

Other Links

Australian Centre for Geomechanics (ACG)

Geotechnical Engineering Photographic Library (U.C. Davis)

Liquefaction - University of Washington Web Site

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