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Lectures in Engineering Geology
EG.1 Applied engineering geology
Dr M.H.de Freitas, Dr.J.W.Cosgrove and visiting lecturers
90 lectures with supporting practical work, course work and tutorials, and
associated fieldwork, as listed from EG.1 A to EG.1 M inclusive.
Inspection of drilling equipment during
the Easter Study tour
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EG.1A Overview of engineering geology
Dr. M. H. de Freitas, Dr. C. Butenuth
18 hours of lectures, exercises and tutorials.
Review of the subject, its vocabulary, operation and use in geotechnics,
basic competences required to operate as an engineering geologist, issues of
current concern and the role of the engineering geologist in ground
engineering.
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Professor J.B. Burland, Dr M.H. de Freitas
9 lectures.
Significance of ground profiles to engineering design, origin and investigation
of profiles and the engineering description of soils and rocks.
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Dr M.H.de Freitas
12 lectures with tutorials.
Design and execution of ground investigation, the recording of data, its
assessment and the implications of such data for the costs and benefits of
further investigation.
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EG. 1D Ground investigation II
Dr M.H. de Freitas
10 tutorials plus coursework.
The use of geological data for engineering purposes and interpretation of site
investigation reports.
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EG.1E Engineering geology of soils and rocks
Dr M.H. de Freitas
30 lectures with tutorials.
Formation, accumulation and geotechnical characters of soils found on land
and in rivers, estuaries and lakes| in tropical, arid and glacial environments.
Formation and geotechnical character of intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks,
metamorphic and sedimentary rocks, and the problems associated with hills,
slopes, valleys and rock-head.
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Dr J.W Cosgrove
6 lectures.
The character and origin of neotectonic processes, geological evidence of such
processes, means of dating (e.g. for capable faults and seismic events) and of
determining their rate of movement.
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EG.1G Engineering geology for ground treatment and foundations
Mr J. Woodward
27 lectures with tutorials and coursework.
The Engineering Geology relevant for ground treatment and the principles of
foundation design in soils and rocks.
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EG.1H Professional practice in engineering geology
Dr M.H. de Freitas and geotechnical engineers from industry
22 hours of individual and group work, and presentations.
A series of master classes in the assessment and presentation of geotechnical
information for contracts.
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EG.1 I Applied engineering geology coursework
Dr M.H. de Freitas and engineers from industry
44 hours of practicals in support of EG.1 A-1H. Report writing using data
from real sites and requiring the design of investigations, interpretation of
results and recommendations for further work, together with an assessment
of the contractual consequences and legal implications for Engineering
Geology in practice.
Index testing of soils on site
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EG.1 L Applied engineering geology fieldwork
Dr M.H. de Freitas
Two long-weekend field trips, an extended trip overseas
after the Easter vacation and occasional half-day trips to local sites, together with
fieldwork associated with the dissertations
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Professor R. J. Chandler; Dr A. Ridley
53 lectures with supporting practical work, course work and tutorials, as listed
in EG.2 A to 2D.
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Dr A Ridley
18 lectures with tutorials.
Physical and mechanical properties of natural soils; classification tests;
principle of effective stress; one-dimensional consolidation and settlement;
shear strength; compaction and the fundamentals of critical state soil
mechanics.
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Professor R. J. Chandler
Disturbed ground involved in mass movement, studied by an MSc student
for his dissertation
30 lectures and 4 tutorials.
Morphological and geotechnical classification of landslides and other
mass movements. Methods of stability analysis for two or three-dimensional failures
in granular and cohesive soils. Short-term, intermediate and long-term conditions.
Back-analysis techniques. Case records. Shear strength parameters. Site investigation
of landslides. Slope development. Stabilisation measures.(The stability of rock slopes
is considered in the course on Rock Mechanics, EG3)
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Professor RI. Chandler
6 lectures.
The structure, construction, behaviour, failure and analyses of tailings dams,
both ancient and modern.
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EG.2 D Laboratory work in soil mechanics
Dr M. H. de Freitas and visitors
21 hours of laboratory practical work covering the conventional logging of
soils, tests used to index and classify soils, and to measure their
permeability, consolidation characters, deformation moduli and shear
strength.
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Dr. J.P Harrison, Professor J.A. Hudson
44 lectures with supporting practical work, course work and tutorials, as listed
in EG.3A to 3D.
Inspection of tunnel excavation using the New
Austrian Tunnelling Method in Italy
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EG.3 A Rock strength and failure
Dr. J.P Harrison, Professor J.A. Hudson
22 lectures with tutorials.
Rock masses; stress and strain in rock; deformability, strength and failure of
intact rock; influence of discontinuities; deformability, strength and failure of
rock masses; permeability; index tests; classification schemes; interaction
matrices and ground response curves.
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EG.3 B Rock excavation and support
Dr J.P Harrison. Professor J.A. Hudson
22 lectures with tutorials.
Blasting and mechanised excavation; rock reinforcement and support;
foundations; surface excavations and support; underground excavations and
support; geothermal energy and radioactive waste disposal in rock.
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EG.3 C Brittle fracture in rock
Dr J.W Cosgrove
12 lectures.
The generation of brittle fractures and their relationship to in situ stress, burial
and exhumation.
The study of brittle fracture and its relationship
to anisotropy within a rock mass.
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EG.3 D Practical work in rock mechanics
Dr. M. H. de Freitas and visitors
12 hours of practical work to complete the conventional tests used
for measuring the strength and deformation of rock and rock surfaces, and for
indexing rock. Many of these tests may be completed in the field.
Core logging will also be included.
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Dr M.H. de Freitas, Mrs. S. Cullum, Dr. P Hardisty, Dr. A. Butler
50 hours of lectures and tutorials, with coursework and supporting practicals.
A water supply adit in Chalk; the adit is unsupported
and over 100 years old
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Dr M.H. de Freitas
20 lectures with tutorials and practical work.
The natural parameters controlling the transmissivity, storage and quality of
groundwater, quantification of flow in pores and fissures by various methods,
the field investigation of groundwater and assessment of field parameters,
wells and water supply, the control of groundwater in surface and
underground works, and waste disposal.
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EG.4B Hydrogeology for contaminated land
Dr P. Hardisty, Dr. A. Butler
30 lectures with tutorials.
Current practice and legislation for waste disposal and monitoring, and its
relation to the geology and hydrogeology of sites.
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EG.4C Waste management & Landfill engineering
Dr. C. Cheeseman, Dr. Z-Al Daha, Mrs S. Cullum
30 lectures with tutorials.
The engineering requirements for designing safe waste disposal sites and
the monitoring associated with them.
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EG.4D Chemistry for non-chemists
Dr. C. Cheeseman
30 lectures with tutorials.
A review of the basics relevant to the use of chemistry in engineering.
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EG.5 Application of remote sensing to engineering geology
Mr. J. McM. Moore
6 hours of lecture and practicals.
General characters of remote sensing images relevant to ground investigation,
Including aerial photography, airborne line-scan systems and satellite imagery.
Practical exercises involving the processing of remotely sensed digital data for
geotechnical purposes.
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EG.6 Current developments in geotechnical engineering
Visitors from Industry
A programme of 11 lectures, totalling approximately 33 hours given by
industry and covering a wide range of topics or current concern
to ground engineering. Topics include current construction methods and
contract procedures, present concerns with waste disposal and contaminated
land, risk assessment and its management, and the use of engineering
geophysics in ground investigation.
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