Calendar: 1951-1952 Page 191

192 faculty of engineering Engineering Construction One leoture per week Drawing Two terms one afternoon per week Excavation Embankment and Mass Haul-Trenches and Founda- tions-Boring and Tunnelling-Building Materials and Operations- Permanent Way-Roads-Rainfall Run-off and Storage-Reservoirs Filters and Aqueducts-Sewerage and Sewage Disposal-Breakwaters Docks Locks and Gates Geodesy and Quantities One lecture per week throughout the session Easter term -Computation and plotting one whole day per week Contours-Cross-sections-Volumes-Compound and Transition Curves-Field Astronomy-Latitude Azimuth and Time by Meridian Elongation and Extra-meridian Observations-Determination of Longi- tude-Convergence of Meridians-Latitude and Longitude by Account -Precise Levelling-Trigonometrical and Barometrical Levelling- Triangulation-Adjustment of Angles-Photographic Surveying-Re- section-Location of Schemes and Structures Practical Work -Calculation of quantities-Fieldwork Calculations and Plotting for Minor Triangulation-Astronomical Observations of Star and Sun week of field work is arranged in the Easter vacation attendance at which is compulsory PART III Structures and Soil Mechanics Structures Lectures One per week during Michaelmas and Lent terms Computation and Drawing One afternoon in alternate weeks more advanced treatment of the subjects in Theory and Design of Structures Part II-The various methods for the analysis of statically indeterminate structures-Portal frames and similar structures with variable second moment of area-The elements of prestressed concrete Soil Mechanics Lectures Two per week during Michaelmas term and one per week during Lent term Site investigations sampling structure of soils densities index properties mechanical analysis classification seepage of water flow nets piping filters compressibility of soils consolidation time- settlement predictions shear strength stability of slopes retaining walls footings piled foundations compaction stabilization pavement design