CVS5344 Geotechnical Engineering is a 3-credit core course offered in Semester 6 of the Bachelor of Science Honours in Engineering Degree Programme in Civil Engineering under the Revised Curriculum 2025 (RC’25).
This course on Geotechnics focuses on the analysis, design and construction of structural supports provided by soil overburden. It aims to give you an overall view of the structure of engineering soils, shear strength and stress-strain behavior, settlement under loading of soils, seepage through soils, bearing capacity considerations, earth retaining structures and stability of slopes.
- Teacher: D.G.R.I.B deniyegoda
- Teacher: Anuruddhika Jayasinghe