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University of Alberta Calendar 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CALENDAR]

CIV E 680 - Engineering Properties of Soils

Course Career Graduate
Units 4
Approved Hours 3-1S-1
Fee index 6
Faculty Engineering
Department Civil & Environmental Eng
Typically Offered first term

Description
Principle of effective stress, clay-water systems, soil compressibility and theories of consolidation. Pore pressure parameters. Strength of granular and cohesive media. Anisotropy of soils. Laboratory measurement of strength and deformation properties. Stress-strain relations.