1Preface
693.6.1 Mineral Exploration
2Chapter
703.6.2 Hydrocarbon Exploration
31 The Basics of Mine - Geotechnics
713.7 Civil engineering
41.1 History
723.7.1 Ground-penetrating Radar
51.2 Practicing engineers
733.7.2 Spectral-Analysis-of-Surface-Waves
61.3 History of mining engineering
743.7.3 Full Waveform Inversion
71.4 Education
753.8 Exercise
81.5 Salary and statistics
76Chapter
91.6 Pre-mining
774 Building Foundation and Retaining Structures
101.7 Mineral determination
784.8.1 Purpose: 4.8.2 Requirements of a Good Foundation
111.8 Mining process
794.1 Historic foundation types
121.8.1 Blasting
804.1.1 Earthfast or post in Ground Construction
131.8.2 Leaching
814.1.2 Padstones
141.8.3 Flotation
824.1.3 Stone Foundations
151.8.4 Electrostatic Separation
834.1.4 Rubble Trench Foundations
161.8.5 Gravity Separation
844.2 Modern foundation types
171.8.6 Magnetic Separation
854.2.1 Shallow Foundations
181.8.7 Hydraulic Separation
864.2.2 Spread Footing Foundation
191.9 Exercise
874.2.3 Mat-slab Foundations
20Chapter
884.2.4 Slab-on-grade Foundation
212 Rock and Soil Mechanics
894.2.5 Rubble Trench Foundation
222.9.1 Transport
904.2.6 Earthbag Foundation
232.1 Soil composition
914.2.7 Deep Foundations
242.1.1 Soil Mineralogy
924.2.8 Driven Foundations
252.1.2 Grain Size Distribution
934.2.9 Pile Foundation Systems
262.1.3 Sieve Analysis
944.2.10 Monopile Foundation
272.1.4 Hydrometer Analysis
954.3 Design
282.2 Soil classification
964.4 Retaining Wall
292.2.1 Classification of Soil Grains
974.5 Definition
302.2.2 Classification of Sands and Gravels
984.6 Retaining wall terminology
312.2.3 Atterberg Limits
994.7 Types
322.2.4 Classification of Silts and Clays
1004.7.1 Gravity Walls
332.3 Flownets
1014.7.2 Cantilevered
342.4 Seepage forces and erosion
1024.7.3 Diaphragm Wall
352.5 Seepage pressures
1034.7.4 Sheet Piling
362.6 Effective stress and capillarity: hydrostatic conditions
1044.7.5 Bored Pile
372.7 Capillary action
1054.7.6 Anchored Pile
382.8 Consolidation
1064.8 Exercise
392.9 Shear behavior: stiffness and strength
107Chapter
402.10 Friction, interlocking and dilation
1085 Offshore Geotechnical Engineering
412.11 Applications
1095.1 Differences between onshore and offshore geotechnical engineering are
422.11.1 Lateral Earth Pressure
1105.2 The offshore environment
432.11.2 Bearing Capacity
1115.2.1 The Nature of the Soil
442.12 Slope stability: 2.12.1 Simple Slope Slip Section
1125.2.2 Metocean Aspects
452.13 Recent developments
1135.2.3 Geohazards
462.14 Rock mechanics: 2.14.1 Background
1145.2.4 Site Investigation
472.15 Exercise
1155.2.5 Desk Study
48Chapter
1165.2.6 Geophysical Surveys
493 Geotechnical Investigation
1175.2.7 Geotechnical Surveys
503.15.1 Soil Sampling: 3.15.2 Soil Samplers
1185.2.8 Sampling and Drilling
513.1 In situ tests
1195.2.9 In situ Soil Testing
523.2 Laboratory tests
1205.3 Offshore structures and geotechnical considerations
533.2.1 Atterberg Limits
1215.4 Submarine pipelines
543.2.2 California Bearing Ratio
1225.4.1 Route Selection
553.2.3 Direct Shear Test
1235.4.2 Physical Factors
563.2.4 Expansion Index Test
1245.4.3 Other uses of the Seabed
573.2.5 Hydraulic Conductivity Tests
1255.4.4 Submarine Pipeline Characteristics
583.2.6 Oedometer Test
1265.5 Offshore Embedded Anchors
593.2.7 Particle-size Analysis
1275.5.1 Drag-embedment Anchors
603.2.8 R-Value Test
1285.5.2 Design
613.2.9 Soil Compaction Tests
1295.5.3 Fluke
623.3 Soil suction tests
1305.5.4 Shank
633.3.1 Triaxial Shear Tests
1315.5.5 Padeye
643.3.2 Unconfined Compression Test
1325.5.6 Mooring Line
653.3.3 Water Content
1335.6 Exercise
663.4 Geophysical exploration
134Appendix
673.5 Geophysical methods
135Glossary
683.6 Uses
136Index
