(WRE3)

The Soil Mechanics course for Supervising Engineers is designed to remind/refresh or indeed educate for the first time candidates to give a better understanding of soil mechanics relating to dams.

Benefits of attending for the learner
• The course will cover the design principles associated with dams and therefore cover the elements affecting stability, seepage and seepage control giving a better understanding of soil mechanics relating to dams.

Benefits of attending for the employer
• Competent and more effective employees

What will you learn?
• Failures and incidents driven by soil mechanics problems will be reviewed to give an understanding of those factors which have contributed to the failure mechanism. The recent incident at Toddbrook will be discussed with reference to the geotechnical issues.
• The historical development of soil mechanics will be described which will enable the candidate to better understand the concepts applied and the levels of uncertainty and limitations that still exist in some analyses.
• Engineering characteristics of soils will be visited as well as seepage analysis and slope stability analysis.
• Site investigation techniques and instrumentation will be discussed in detail. Site investigation techniques, instrumentation for new dams and for dams where problems have been discovered will also be discussed. Leakage survey techniques will be described as well as remediation techniques including piling, grouting and diaphragm wall fillers.

What qualifications will you achieve?

• Dams & Reservoirs Certificate.
How is the training delivered?
• All lectures will be related to actual case studies and there will be some mathematical exercises undertaken.
What do I need to bring with me?
• Scientific calculator
• Ruler