TRAINING.

Overview

After participating in this course, you will be able to:

• Apply your knowledge of soil mechanics to the design and implementation of retaining and shoring systems.
• Implement the necessary requirements, procedures, and techniques for the safe, effective, and efficient retaining and shoring systems design.
• Practice and adhere to trenching and shoring safety precautions to ensure compliance with national competency standards.
• Utilize equations and load calculations derived for shoring design and apply these to real-world scenarios.
• Design various earth-supporting systems, including sheet pile walls, braced cuts, and tieback anchors, using practical design examples to translate theory into practice.

Description
This comprehensive course provides hands-on training in shoring design, crucial for ensuring the stability and safety of excavation projects. Understanding shoring design is vital because improper shoring can lead to dangerous collapses, endangering workers and delaying construction projects. By mastering these skills, you contribute to safer and more efficient construction practices, adhering to national competency standards for primary ground support installation.

Throughout the course, you will revisit essential soil mechanics concepts and learn how to apply this knowledge to trenching and shoring design. You will learn the fundamental equations and load calculations needed for shoring design, providing you with a solid theoretical foundation.

Participants will explore and design earth-supporting systems, such as sheet pile walls, braced cuts, and tieback anchors. Illustrated design examples will demonstrate how to translate theoretical knowledge into practical, real-world applications, ensuring the expertise needed to implement safe and effective shoring solutions in your projects.

Who Should Attend
This course is ideal for civil and municipal engineers, project engineers and managers, consultants, designers, operation and maintenance personnel, developers, and planners.

If you are involved in the planning, designing, or implementing shoring and retaining systems, this course will enhance your skills and knowledge, ensuring you can effectively and safely apply soil mechanics principles in your projects.

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Syllabus

Day I

Review of Soil Mechanics

• Soil origins
• Soil classification
• The flow of water in soil
• Effective and total stresses
• Shear strength
• Geotechnical investigation and site assessment

Day II

Shoring Design and Construction

• Lateral earth pressures
• Retaining walls
• Sheet pile walls (cantilever and anchored)
• Braced cuts
• Soldier pile
• Anchored tieback system

Questions and Answers and Feedback to Participants on Achievement of Learning Outcomes

Instructor

Mohammad Rayhani, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Dr. M.T. Rayhani is a Professor of Geotechnical Engineering and the director of Geo-engineering Research Group at Carleton University. He has over a decade of experience in research, teaching and engineering consulting, and has collaborated extensively with industry leaders worldwide. He has received research grants from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Transport Canada, and other funding agencies.

Dr. Rayhani has presented short courses, seminars, and guest lectures on various topics related to frontier research in geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering in Canada, the USA, France, Germany, Italy, India, Iran, and other countries. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Western Ontario and he is the author of over 50 publications in different areas of geo-engineering.

Dr. Rayhani is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario.