Overview
Description
Essentials of rock fracture relevant to geological engineering, including stress and strain, properties and classification of continuous and discontinuous rock masses, and mechanism of rock fracture.
Units
Lecture3
Laboratory Studio1
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate, through analytical papers and laboratory reports, that they can speak the mathematical language of continuum mechanics and apply this knowledge to solve diverse geological problems.
- organize, approach, and solve multi-step Earth science and geological engineering problems. In a general, this means that students will be able to derive useful equations from fundamental governing equations and constitutive equations, list needed assumptions, and solve specific geological problems by specifying appropriate initial and boundary conditions.
- demonstrate that they have developed a useful scientific/engineering computing skill set that can be used throughout professional practice by writing basic procedural programming scripts to solve equations, complete analysis, plot results, and visualize data across a range of geological problems.