Academic Catalog

CE 520 Soil Behavior and Its Role in Environmental Applications

An overview of soil mineralogy, soil formation, chemistry, and composition. Influence of the above factors in environmental engineering properties; study of colloidal phenomena; fate and transport of trace metals in sediments, soil fabric, and structure; conduction phenomena; and compressibility, strength, deformation properties, and stress-strain-time effects, as they pertain to environmental geotechnology applications (i.e., contaminated soil remediation, soil/solid waste stabilization, waste containment alternatives, soil-water-contaminant interactions, and contaminant transport).

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

EN 520

Prerequisite

Graduate Student or At Least Junior

Distribution

Civil Engineering Program Environmental Engineering Program

Typically Offered Periods

Fall Semester Spring Semester