Soil Mechanics, Bearing Capacity and Slope Stabilization Seminar
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What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
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Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 am – 12:15 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:15 – 4:30 pm
Soil Investigation and Classification
Properties of soil
• Importance of recognizing soil properties
• Formation of soils
• Types of soils
Soil investigation
• Site reconnaissance
• Geology and visual observations
• Drilling and boring
• Test pits
• Establishing appropriate investigational methods
• Obtaining and reviewing geotechnical reports
Reviewing Hydraulic and Mechanical Properties of Soils
Soil permeability and seepage
Stresses in a soil mass
Compressibility of soil
Drained and undrained shear strength
Vertical and lateral earth pressure
Determining and Increasing Bearing Capacity
Calculating bearing capacity
Bearing capacity of shallow foundations
Bearing capacity of piers and piles
Increasing bearing capacity
• Draining and compaction
• Soil improvement
Determining and Increasing Slope Stability
Natural and engineered slopes
Basic concepts of slope stability
Types of slope failures
Slope stability analyses
Impact of surface water and groundwater
Examining slope stabilization methods
• Unloading
• Draining and compaction
• Reinforcement
• Soil improvement
Credits
Architects
6.5 HSW CEHs/Contact Hours
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers up to 6.5 HSW continuing education/contact hours to architects and 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers in most states.
The American Institute of Architects has approved this event for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). The Louisiana State Board of Architectural Examiners accepts programs approved by the American Institute of Architects. Partial attendance cannot be reported to the AIA.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education provider for Louisiana engineers.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for architects in Florida (Sponsor No. 0001388) and is deemed an approved sponsor in New York. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida (Sponsor No. 0004647), Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.
This course offers a continuing education opportunity for construction contractors, but it is not approved in any state with a contractor continuing education requirement.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
Malay Ghose
University of New OrleansDr. Malay Ghose Hajra is an associate professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at the University of New Orleans (UNO) in Louisiana. He is a registered professional engineer (P.E.) in multiple states including Louisiana.
Dr. Ghose Hajra completed his Ph.D. degree from Kansas State University in 2001 followed by a post-doctoral assignment at the Microscale Physiochemical Engineering Center at the University of Akron in Ohio. During the next ten years, he was employed as a consulting geotechnical engineer working on and managing several hundred geotechnical design and construction projects in Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi. These projects dealt with complex foundation and pavement systems in unpredictable and changing subsurface soil conditions. The engineering analyses also included deep foundation recommendations for highway bridges, slope stability and seepage analyses for levees and embankments, and settlement estimates of soft compressible alluvial coastal deposits. His professional experience also includes working with multiple Department of Transportation (DOT) agencies, US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) in the analyses and design of new Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction Systems (HSDRRS) and coastal restoration and protection projects in south Louisiana.
At UNO, Dr. Ghose Hajra’s academic research interests are in the areas of geotechnical and foundation engineering, coastal restoration and coastal protection, energy foundations, in-situ and laboratory characterization of coastal sediment deposits, and sustainable coastal infrastructure systems. He teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses on Geotechnical Engineering and Foundation Design, Coastal Geotechnics, Shear Strength and Slope Stability, and Sustainability Principles for Engineers. He is a member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), ASCE Geo-Institute’s Engineering Geology and Site Characterization Committee, Deep Foundations Institute (DFI), and Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI).