Geotechnical Engineering
Principles of Geotechnical Engineering are applied to all of the other disciplines of Civil Engineering. Knowledge of buildings, bridges and highways' ability to reliably transmit their loads to the soil or rock beneath them is crucial. CE 553, Advanced Foundation Engineering, addresses these issues at the graduate level.
Environmental Engineers must consider the flow of groundwater and its potential contamination as well as design of waste containment facilities. CE 4048, Earth Structures, is appropriate for study of these topics. Transportation Engineers dealing with highway design confront problems of assessing stability of highway cut slopes and embankment fills, topics that also are studied in CE 4048.
CE 550 and CE 551 address issues such as clay chemistry, consolidation and load deformation response of soils under static and dynamic loading at an advanced level. An additional course dealing with the use of probability concepts in geotechnical design is often offered on an independent basis.
Classes
- CE 4048 Earth Structures
- CE 550 Theoretical Soil Mechanics
- CE 551 Theoretical Soil Mechanics II
- CE 552 Earth Structures
- CE 553 Advanced Foundation Engineering
Research
- The Gillette Facilities Relocation Project: Intake Structure Cofferdam Failure. M.S. Thesis by J. Matuszewki (Advisors: L. Albano and R. D'Andrea)
- Sorption Phenomena in Heavy Metal Contaminated Soils. M.S. Thesis by T. St. Germain (Advisors: J. O'Shaughnessy and R. D'Andrea)
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