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MINING 7072 - Mining Geomechanics

North Terrace Campus - Semester 1 - 2015

This course aims to provide students with the basic knowledge required to undertake geotechnical investigations. The topics covered in the course include: basics of materials behaviour; stress-strain, failure criteria, stress and strain tensors. Basic soil mechanics; phase relationships, soil classification, effective stress, seepage, consolidation, compaction, retaining structures. Basic rock mechanics rock material behaviour, joints, rock mass strength and deformability and slope stability.

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