Department
of Earth Science |
Northeastern
Illinois University
INTRODUCTION
TO GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
ESCI
340
Spring,
2007
Review for Exam
#1 (February
6, 2007)
Dr. Sanders
By the end of
today's class, you should be able to do the following:
* Respond
appropriately to the list of skills in
What
should you bring to this
course?
* Be ready to
answer "Questions and Practice Problems", p. 32-33: Problems
2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, and
"Comprehensive
Questions and Practice Problems", p. 45: Problem
2.13.
* List the eight
common rock-forming minerals mentioned in your textbook and describe
their properties and general
chemical composition.
(feldspars, quartz, ferromagnesian minerals, iron oxides, calcite,
dolomite, mica, and gypsum)
* Describe
hand
samples of the common rock-forming minerals; give mineral names where
appropriate.
* Suggest
why
some of the specific properties of these minerals might be of
importance to a geotechnical engineer.
* Describe the
importance of discontinuities (bedding
planes, schistocity, folds, joints,
and fractures in engineering analysis).
* Name and give
concise definitions of the three major classes of rocks. For each
one, list subgroups and describe their formation and important
characteristics.
* Examining hand
samples of various types of rocks, construct reasonable hypotheses as
to how they formed; classify them according to your hypotheses.
* Suggest why
some of the specific properties of these rocks might be of importance
to a geotechnical engineer.
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Describe the importance of discontinuities (bedding
planes, schistocity, joints,
and fractures) in engineering analysis.
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Considering
the different goals and objectives of geologists and engineers, write
definitions of "soil", "sediment", and "rock" that
would be suitable for each group.
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* Describe the characteristics of six different environments of soil
formation mentioned in the textbook on pages 33-43, including their
engineering properties
(residual, glacial, alluvial, lacustrine, aeolian,
and colluvial soils).
* Explain why an understanding the engineering properties of soil and
rock would be useful in common projects such as building of, say, a
parking garage or roadway.
* Answer "Questions
and Practice Problems", p. 32-33: Problems
2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, and
2.5.
* Answer
"Comprehensive
Questions and Practice Problems", p. 45: Problems
2.13 through 2.19. In answering the problems, discuss the
following information:
--Location of the
study site
--Sketch of a
geologic cross section, plan view map, or other representation of the
important geological aspects of the situation.
--A brief summary
of the question/problem posed
--Your response
--Any further
geologic considerations that might be important.
* List the
three phases of soils.
* Explain the difference between volume, mass, and weight of the three
phases of soils.
* Explain how to
measure moisture
content
in the laboratory.
*
Report, compare, and analyze the results of the soil moisture
determination.
* Explain what
the following quantities reveal about a soil, and using
a soil phase diagram, define each one:
q
moisture content
(w)
q porosity (n)
|
q
density (r):
s density of the soil sample
s
dry density
s density of water
q specific gravity of solids (Gs)
|
* Using the mass of
a dry soil sample, estimate the volume of solids by using density of
the mineral content.
* Given a mass of water in a sample, use the density of water to
estimate the volume of water.
Department
of Earth Science | Northeastern
Illinois
University
© 2007 Laura L. Sanders. Last updated
February 2, 2007.