Suncam Continuing Education Author: Thomas B. Watson, III, P. E.

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132-Fundamentals of Helical Anchors/Piles, Part I

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4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

This course covers the fundamentals of Helical Anchors for deep foundations. This course is a good introductory course for engineers new to Helical Anchor design and is a good refresher for experienced engineers. The course gives a brief history and background of this type of foundation product. You will learn about corrosion, the correlation between torque and load capacity for Helical Anchors, column buckling, lateral capacity and aspects of soil mechanics as it applies to Helical Anchors.

By successfully completing this course, you should be comfortable performing preliminary calculations relating to torque vs. capacity, friction capacity, column buckling, and lateral capacity.

471-Fundamentals of Helical Anchors/Piles, Part II - Compression & Uplift Capacity Calculations

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4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: By successfully completing this course, you should be comfortable performing preliminary calculations relating to Helical Anchor/Pile load capacity for vertically installed piles as well as tieback systems for retaining walls.

Course Description:

This course covers the calculations required to design Helical Anchor/Pile deep foundation systems. This course is a good introductory course for engineers new to Helical Anchor design and is a good refresher for experienced engineers. The course provides a background and the appropriate formulas for Helical Anchor/Pile foundation design. You will learn about bearing capacity in cohesive and non-cohesive soils for both uplift and compression and determining soil capacity from soil borings as well as the probe method.

328-Pile Supported Foundation Design

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4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

This course covers the design of pile supported foundations. This course is a good introductory course for engineers new to the design and analysis of pile cap design and is a good refresher for experienced engineers. The course gives a brief background of the types of piling utilize in deep foundations. You will learn about piling arrangement, pile load calculations due to axial loads and moments, direct shear, deep beam shear and punching shear as it applies to pile cap design.

By successfully completing this course, you should be comfortable performing calculations relating to flexural reinforcement, pile cap thickness required to resist shear and procedures which are per the Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete (ACI 318-14).

252-Fundamentals of Foundation Design

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4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

This course covers the fundamentals of Foundation Design. This course is a good introductory course for engineers who wish to review the principles of foundation design and is a good refresher for experienced engineers. The course gives a background on soil mechanics and the design of shallow foundations. You will learn about bearing pressures, design of wall footings, design of an axially loaded two-way footing, bearing pressure under eccentrically loaded footings and basic reinforcing design for footings.

By successfully completing this course, you should be comfortable performing preliminary calculations for shallow foundations and footing design.

376-An Introduction to Drilled Shaft Foundation Design

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4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: By successfully completing this course, you should be comfortable performing preliminary calculations relating to reinforcement design, Brom's Method for laterally loaded drilled shafts and gain an understanding of many of the construction techniques related to drilled shaft construction.

Course Description:

This course covers the basics of drilled shaft foundation design. An Introduction to Drilled Shaft Foundation Design is a good introductory course for engineers who have limited experience in drilled shaft foundation design and is a good refresher course for experienced engineers. The course gives a brief history and background of this type of foundation. You will learn how to design axial loaded drilled shaft foundations as well as methods required for the design of eccentrically loaded drilled shaft foundations.

423-A Practical Review of Statics

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4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: By successfully completing this course, you should be comfortable performing calculations relating to Force and Moment Systems, Free-Body Diagrams, Trusses, Flexible Cables, Analysis of Beams with Concentrated Loads and Distributed Loads, Centroids of Lines and Areas, Theorems of Pappus, Area Moments of Inertia, Fluid Statics and Friction.

Course Description:

This course covers the basics of statics. “A Practical Review of Statics” is a good review course for engineers who have been out of school for a while and is a good refresher course for engineers who are recent graduates. The course gives a comprehensive review of the basics of statics.

432-A Practical Review of Mechanics of Materials

(4.6) 10 Reviews

4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: By successfully completing this course, you should be comfortable performing calculations relating to Stress-Strain Diagrams & Axial Deformations, Stresses in Beams due to Bending Moments, Stresses in Beams due to Shear, Deflections in Beams, Columns, The Principles of Superposition and Torsion.

Course Description:

This course covers the basics of Mechanics of Materials. “A Practical Review of Mechanics of Materials” is a good review course for engineers who have been out of school for a while and is a good refresher course for engineers who are recent graduates. The course gives a comprehensive review of the basics of Mechanics of Materials.

478-A Practical Review of Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics

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4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: By successfully completing this course, you should be comfortable performing calculations relating to Buoyancy, Viscosity of a Fluid, Fluid Statics, Fundamentals of Fluid Flow, Measurement of Fluid Flow and Flow in Open Channels.

Course Description:

This course covers the basics of Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics. “A Practical Review of Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics” is a good review course for engineers who have been out of school for a while and is a good refresher course for engineers who are recent graduates. The course gives a comprehensive review of the basics of Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics.

494-A Practical Review of Applied Calculus & Analytical Geometry

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4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: By successfully completing this course, you should be comfortable performing calculations relating to Equations of Conic Sections, Derivatives, Plane Areas by Integration, Length of Arc of a Curve, Curvature, Centroids and Moments of Inertia of Lines on a Plane, Centroids and Moments of Inertia of Areas on a Plane, Surface Areas and Volumes of Revolution and Liquid Pressure.

Course Description:

This course covers the basics of Applied Calculus and Analytical Geometry. “A Practical Review of Applied Calculus and Analytical Geometry” is a good review course for engineers who have been out of school for a while and is a good refresher course for engineers who are recent graduates. The course gives a comprehensive review of the basics of Applied Calculus and Analytical Geometry.