Soil Mechanics, Bearing Capacity and Slope Stabilization Seminar
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
Compressibility of soil
Soil hydraulics
• Saturation, hydraulic gradient, and conductivity
Drained and undrained shear strength
• Vertical and lateral earth pressure
Stress and failure in soils
Determining and Increasing Bearing Capacity
Calculating bearing capacity
Bearing capacity of shallow foundations
Bearing capacity of piers and pilesIncreasing bearing capacity
• Draining and compaction
• Soil improvement
Determining and Increasing Slope Stability
Natural and engineered slopes
Reviewing basic concepts of slope stability
Understanding slope failures
Impact of surface water and groundwater
Examining slope stabilization methods
• Unloading
• Draining and compaction
• Reinforcement
• Soil improvement
Credits
Professional Engineers
6.5 PDHs
Architects
6.5 HSW PDHs
6.5 AIA HSW Learning Units
Landscape Architects
6.5 HSW PDHs
6.5 LA CES HSW PDHs
Contractors
Non-Credit Cont. Ed.
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public and offers up to 6.5 PDHs to professional engineers and 6.5 HSW PDHs/continuing education hours to architects and landscape architects in all states. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Kansas or surrounding states.
This seminar is approved by the American Institute of Architects for 6.5 HSW Learning Units (Sponsor No. J885). The Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System has approved this course for 6.5 HSW PDHs.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for architects in Florida and is deemed an approved sponsor in New York. HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), New York (NYSED Sponsor No. 35), North Carolina, and North Dakota.
This seminar provides a non-credit continuing education opportunity to contractors. It has not been submitted to any state contractor licensing board for continuing education approval.
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
Robert Parsons
University of KansasDirector of Construction for the School of Engineering Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering University of Kansas
Dr. Parsons is a professor in the Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering Department at the University of Kansas, where he has been since 1998. In addition to teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels, Dr. Parsons has an active research program with emphases on soil stabilization, aggregate testing, deep foundations, mechanically-stabilized earth, and railroad ballast characterization and improvement. He is an author of dozens of publications for many research journals, conference proceedings and technical reports. He is the current chair of the Committee on Cementitious Stabilization for the Transportation Research Board (a part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine). Dr. Parsons has also served as director of construction for the School of Engineering at KU since 2014, where he represented the School on 80 million dollars of new construction that included two new buildings and renovation of the Engineering Library, in addition to ongoing renovation activities.