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56361 Soil Mechanics in Advanced Practice
Danish title: Geoteknik 4. Videregående praksis
Language: Danish Credit points: 5
Type: Open University
Language: Danish

Previous course: C5661
No credit points with: C5661
Prerequisite: 56141, 56002
Recommended semester: 7th - 9th semester
Examination: Oral exam (13-scale)
Contact person: Anette Susanne Krogsbøll, Building 373, Tel. +45 4525 5088, email akr@iabm.dtu.dk
Jens Ludvig Sørensen, Geoteknisk Institut, tlf. 45 88 44 44

Department: Department of Geology and Geotechnical Engineering
Aim: To enable the participants: -to plan a geotechnical preliminary and design investigation appropriate to a given project. -to explain the most important problems in relation to design and construction of foundations and open cuts in the soil profile, and to indicate solutions to given foundation problems. -to plan and interpret possible follow up investigations and arrangements.
Contents: Geotechnical investigations, including application of geology and soil testing. Building foundations and open cuts, including seepage problems, frost problems, and considerations of neighbouring constructions. Earth fill. control investigations. Foundation failures.