General Information
#Course specification: https://www.usq.edu.au/course/synopses/2018/CIV3403.html
All student: s must submit their assignments electronically using the Moodle system
in CIV3403 Study Desk. No other means of submission is permitted.
#This is an individual assessment item and no collaboration with other students is
allowed.
https://www.usq.edu.au/course/synopses/2018/CIV3403.html
“Penalties for late submission of required work:
If students submit assignments after the due date without (prior) approval of the
examiner then a penalty of 5% of the total marks gained by the student for the
assignment may apply for each working day late up to ten working days at which
time a mark of zero may be recorded. No assignments will be accepted after model
answers have been posted.”#Assignment extension policy: see CIV3403 Study Desk.
Q1. Know your study resources and turn that passive learning style into an active one.
(10 marks)
Conduct an internet search and answer the following questions:
● List five geotechnical-related eBooks and online lecture videos and their WWW links.
● List five international journals and/or conferences in the area of geotechnical
engineering and their websites.
Q2. Sinkhole (10 marks)
Watch the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfdsKUfvREY&t=114s
List five technical terminology used in the video.
Q3. Longwall Mining (10 marks)
Watch the following videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXORrVmxwbM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flePGEGtIAQ
List five technical terminology used in the video.
Q4. TBM – Tunneling Boring Machine (10 marks)
Watch the following videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRkgiHbZGvc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z38JIqGDZVU
List five technical terminology used in the video.
Q5. Subsoil exploration (10 marks)
Outline the general procedures in subsoil exploration.
(Complete this question in one page.)
Q6. Landfill liners (10 marks)
What geotechnical characteristics should a good landfill site have?
(Complete this question in one page.)
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Q7. Drained and un-drained concepts in geotechnical analysis (10 marks)
Answer the following questions.
Drained analysis in geotechnical engineering?
(Drained shear strength parameters – What? Why? and How?)
Un-drained analysis in geotechnical engineering?
(Un-drained shear strength parameters – What? Why? and How?)
(Complete this question in one page.)
Q8. Learning from mistakes (10 marks)
Conduct an internet search and answer the following questions for the Shanghai building
collapse in 2009.
What was the failure? What went wrong? What failed? What were the lessons learned?
What could have been done to avoid the disaster?
(Complete this question in one page.)
Q9. Install a computer program – Slope/W (10 marks)
Have you successfully installed the free student version of Slope/W in your computer?
If “yes”, include a screen capture to your answer.
If “no”, state your reasons.
Q10. Install a computer program – FLAC/Slope (5 marks)
Have you successfully installed the free student version of FLAC/Slope in your
computer?
If “yes”, include a screen capture to your answer. If “no”, state your reasons.
Q11. Install a computer program – OPTUM G2 (5 marks)
https://optumce.com/
https://optumce.com/academic/academic-license/
Have you successfully installed the 90 days academic version of OPTUM G2 in your
computer?
If “yes”, include a screen capture to your answer. If “no”, state your reasons.