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COURSE INFORMATION FOR CURRENT SEMESTER/TERM

References/Teaching Materials/
Week Lecture/Tutorial/Assignment Topic
Equipment
1 Introduction – origin and formation of soil, weathering process and clay Ref. book and handouts
minerals

2 Soil classification – soil classification tests and grading curve Ref. book and handouts

3 Soil classification – British soil classification system and Unified soil Ref. book, handouts, thinking
classification system. Coursework distribution points materials

4 Soil description – Rapid assessment procedures Ref. book and handouts

5 Phase diagram – terms and derivation of phase relationship Ref. book and handouts

6 Solving phase relationship Ref. book and handouts

7 Soil compaction– introduction, compaction test Ref. book and handouts

Soil compaction – compaction on site, machineries, technique,
8 Ref. book and handouts
specification and control on site

9 Permeability – concept of permeability, laboratory and site tests on Ref. book and handouts
permeability

10 Seepage – concept and theory of seepage Ref. book and handouts

11 Flow net – theory and construction of flow nets Ref. book and handouts

12 Solving problem involving flow net Ref. book and handouts

Effective stress – introduction and principles of effective stress, solving
13 Ref. book and handouts
effective stress problem

14 Influence of seepage on effective stress – quick condition, conditions Ref. book and handouts
adjacent to sheet piling, critical hydraulic gradient

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