Jan 30, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
Catalog Navigation
  Catalog Home
  The California State University
  Admission to CSULB
  Fees and Financial Aid
  Baccalaureate Degree Information
  Academic Information and Regulations
  Academic Services and Campus Life
  Graduate Degree Information
  Beach EDGE
  Colleges and Departments
  Courses
  General Policies and Regulations
HELP
2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog

C E 549 - Engineering in Society: Retaining Structures and Slope Stability

(3 units)

Prerequisite: Open to Civil Engineering MS and Engineering MS students only.
Theory of earth pressures, retaining structures, design of retaining walls, sheet piles, mechanically stabilized earth, soil nails, anchored and braced excavation. Theory of slope stability, including shear strength, design charts, limit equilibrium analysis, seepage analysis, staged construction, and rapid drawdown.

Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture-Problems 3 hours).