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| GCIV2058-2 | Environmental geotechnics
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| Duration : | 30h Th, 30h Pr |
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| Lecturer : | Frédéric Collin |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| This course will introduce concepts and notions related to the storage and confinement of municipal and nuclear wastes, and soil improvement techniques.
In the first part devoted to the nuclear wastes, the following aspects will be covered:
- Nuclear wastes management and fundamental principles of a geological storage
- Description of the different physical phenomena occurring in and around the storage galleries.
In the second part dedicated to municipal wastes, the following fundamental aspects will be covered:
- Regulation aspects and conception rules of a MWD
- Elementary design
In the third part, one of the soil improvement techniques will be presented, highlighting the advantages and drawbacks of the method.
In addition to the theoretical lectures, exercises sessions and laboratories will help the students to better understand the theoretical notions and associated concepts. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Understand geomechanics and coupling with unsaturated underground water flow, thermal, chemical fields.
- Design and analysis of geotechnical structures for waste storage.
- Understand one soil improvement technique: its field of application, its limitations.
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| GCIV0603-1: Géotechnique et Infrastructure
MECA0001-1: Mécanique des Matériaux |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| The course is composed of "ex-cathedra" lectures (20 hours), exercises (10 hours) and laboratories (10 hours).
"Ex-cathedra" lectures deal with the confinement of municipal and radioactive wastes and soil improvement techniques.
Exercises (with 2 or 3 students per group) are dedicated to the numerical modelling of the different physical phenomena (THM) occuring in and around nuclear waste disposal.
Laboratory sessions (with 2 or 3 students per group) allow the students validating a material for its use in a confinement engineered barrier.
Laboratory sessions (with 2 or 3 students per group) allow the students evaluating the increase of soil properties after a improvement technique. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Face-to-face |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Available to students, Acrobat files. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Each lesson and practises are mandatory.
Students will be evaluated based on the three written project reports (weight 40%). A oral exam will be organized in January (without access to any course materials) as an oral presentation of the projects, during which the theoretical part of the course will be evaluated as well (weight 60%).
In case of second session (Septembre), both the written report and the oral presentation will be evaluated. |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| The course will be given on tuesday morning from the 18th septembre 2012.
Each lesson (4 hours) will be divided into two parts: a theoretical lesson (2 hours) and practises (2 hours). Invited speakers will give some lectures on industrial use of the theoretical concepts.
A visit of a site related to the course will be organized. |
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Contacts :
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| F. Collin and S. Levasseur
Institut de Mécanique et Génie Civil B52
Tél. 04/366 9142
f.collin@ulg.ac.be
severine.levasseur@ulg.ac.be |
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