Site Investigation in Subdivision and Land Development Assignment

Assignment Task

Assignment 2- Site investigation

In this Assignment you are required to prepare a Site investigation as described in land survey, geotechnical engineering and engineering management of the proposed Special Housing Area - 135 & 143 Pararekau Road, Karaka, Auckland according to Auckland City Council Land Development COP. Remember to consider the requirements of the whole design as well as functionality, safety, environmental, cultural and ethical issues.

This Assignment addresses the following Learning Outcomes;

1. Develop preliminary design(s), based on a given specification, for an engineering project relevant to their discipline strand (Civil)

2. Develop a plan or design parameters considering functionality, safety, environmental, cultural and ethical issues

3. Evaluate compliance of the project output against specification

This Assignment is worth 15% of your overall mark and is to be completed in your allocated group.

Questions

• Define unit weight of soil?
• What equipment’s do you use to measure unit weight in the field? And unit measurement?
• What is the typical number of unit weight?

2.1) How to classify the soil?

2.2) what experiments do you do to classify a soil? Show example of result.

3.1) what is the plasticity characteristics? And for which soil can be used?

3.2) what are the equipment’s using for measure the plasticity characteristics?

3.3) what is the range of the Plasticity Index?

3.4) Fill the below table showing the typical number and range of each type of soil

3.5) what do you do if kaolin is found everywhere in your construction site?

3.6) what do you do if Bentonite is found everywhere in your construction site?

3.7) how many types of clays are there?

4.1) what’s the meaning of strength of a soil? Explain the engineering parameter?

4.2) if the particle distribution curve showing 100% clay then which equipment’s do you use to measure the strength of the soil?

4.3) if the particle distribution curve showing 100% sand then which equipment’s do you use to measure the strength of the soil?

4.3) create a table showing the typical number of strength of the clay and sand?

5.1) Explain experiments to measure the settlements of a soil?

5.2) if you found the soil in the site Clay? How you can reduce the settlement (give name of the methods) what type of pavement you recommend to use of treatment of the clay?

5.3) create a table showing typical number of settlement for different type of soil.

6.1) how can you measure the water table in the site? Name of experiments?

6.2) what is the effect of water in soil (clay and/or sand)?

6.3) draw a geological long section from the outputs of machine boreholes log profile.

6.4) explain a method to measure the underground stress of a site.

6.5) How many types of foundation?

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