Description

Laboratory
2

Instructors

João Paulo Meixedo

Contents

Module 0: general overview and scope
 

Module I: Practical Engineering Geology [9 weeks]
MI.1. Introduction and field trip: field surveys and presentation of the study site
MI.2. Fieldwork: field mapping, engineering geology, hydrogeology and Rock Mechanics Laboratory [Interim report 1]
MI.3. Practical engineering geology and hydrogeology: geotechnical zoning, block size of rock masses, hydrogeology ? collection, characterization, assessment and modelling [Interim report 2]
MI.4. In situ geotechnical site investigations for rock masses [Interim report 3]
MI.5. Final report: oral presentation/discussion

MII. Blasting for Rock Engineering [6 weeks]
MII.1. Reserves, lifetime and transporting volumes calculations
MII.2. Geometric features
MII.3. Drilling equipments and accessories
MII.4. Charge calculations
MII.5. Pathways and slope stability
MII.6. Final report: oral presentation/discussion

Learning Outcomes

This curricular unit is the basis and complement of Project Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering II course. It is a curricular unit integrating the knowledge and skills developed along the course in different curricular units and it is intendent the students have a global perspective of a significant part of the course in order to let them are able to carry out a project of an open pit operation covering all aspects of the same, since the characterization of the rock and the rock mass, through extraction, transport, processing, environmental impact study and landscape recovery and health and safety plan (to be taught in PEGG II). Each of the modules presents a set of objectives (generals and specifics) to be achieved and an appropriated plan of work.