Short course/CPD
Agricultural and Environmental Soil Engineering
Course date: Please enquire
Course overview
Sustainable land management practices in relation to soil tillage, traction and soil compaction for both agriculture and the reclamation of degraded land must be grounded on an understanding of science and engineering.
Location
Course fee:
- £1400 - Standard. 20% discount for Cranfield alumni, 10% discount for colleagues of alumni
- £1340 - Professional/trade association discount
- £1280 - Multiple bookings*
*Minimum of five delegates.
Accommodation fee:
Accommodation is not included in the price.
How to register
To request a place on this course, please complete the online Registration Form.
If you have any queries please contact:
Academic Operations Unit.
T: +44 (0) 1234 754176
E: shortcourse@cranfield.ac.uk
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Cranfield University
Cranfield
Bedfordshire
MK43 0AL, UK
T: +44 (0) 1234 754176
E: shortcourse@cranfield.ac.uk
F: +44 (0) 1234 751206
Please be aware that short courses/CPD are subject to:
Booking ConditionsCourse description
- Reasons for tillage and land management, agronomic, soil and water conservation, mechanisation
- Basics of soil mechanics: shear strength of soil & Mohr-Coulomb equation, effect of texture, moisture content and density on soil strength; Bearing capacity theory; Earth moving theory
- Soil plasticity, consistency and Atterberg limits
- Principles of traction - optimisation of performance, tracks, tyres and ballast
- Mechanics and assessment of soil compaction
- Alleviation of compaction from the optimum choice of tyre/wheel track system(s)
- Soil loosening - restoration: case study
- Basic soil implement mechanics
- Choice of implements for particular operations
- Microbiological, chemical and physical changes in soil during storage
- Effects of soil movement on soil biology and chemistry
- Land drainage equipments
- Earthworks
- Controlled traffic farming (CTF)
- Risk assessment of contaminated land (workshop)
- Contaminated land treatment.
On successful completion of this module the delegate will be able to:
- Understand the principles of soil strength and apply this to the physical management of soil
- Understand issues of soil stability and plasticity
- Ballast and equip machines with the most appropriate tyre configurations.
- Quantify soil compaction and devise strategies to minimise compaction and/or rectify the problem.
- Select the most appropriate tillage tools and systems.
- Manage soil movement.
- Describe the routes to soil physical and biological damage and devise strategies to minimise degradation and ecosystem disruption.
This short course is also a module associated with a Masters-level programme. For further information please click on the programme title directly above in the Quick navigation box.
