Soil Mechanics, Slope Stabilization, Failures & Repairs
DISCLAIMER
Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
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 – 12:00 pm
Lunch (On your own): 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Afternoon Session: 1:00 – 4:30 pm
Slope Mechanics 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
Slope Stability Analysis
Fundamental soil characteristics and slope instability
Engineering mechanics underlying slope instability
Geologic conditions and construction practices
Field observations to distinguish types of instability
Construction practices to improve or restore stability
Examining causes of slope instability
Slope stability analysis
Use of vegetation
Surface protection
Evaluating types of slopes
Natural slopes
Engineered slopes
Reinforced Slope Stability Analysis
Calculations and software
Geosynthetic materials
Alternatives
Exercise
Learn to visually identify geosynthetics as to type, method of manufacture,
relative strength, relative permeability, and relative cost
Earth Structure Failures and Fixes/Site Layout and Prevention
How to prevent a potential problem or failure
How to recognize a potential problem or failure in the field
Typical causes of problems or failures with geotechnical structures
Case studies/examples of failures and repairs
Credits
Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs (HSW)
Architects &
Landscape Architects
6.5 HSW PDHs/CE Hours
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
6.5 LA/CES HSW PDHs
Contractors
Non-Credit Continuing Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers 6.5 PDHs (HSW) to professional engineers and 6.5 HSW PDHs/continuing education hours to architects in all states and landscape architects in most states, including Tennessee. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Tennessee.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota. HalfMoon Education is deemed an approved continuing education sponsor for New York architects and landscape architects.
The American Institute of Architects has approved this seminar for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). The Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System has approved this program for 6.5 HSW PDHs. Only full attendance can be reported to the AIA/CES and the LA/CES.
This course offers building contractors with a non-credit continuing education opportunity. It has not been approved by any state contractor licensing board.
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.