"South Africa: Soils, Substructure, and Superstructure" course
Welcome to InterNACHI's free, online South Africa: Soils, Substructure, and Superstructure course.
This course covers soil types, their performance characteristics and the effect they have on substructures and superstructures. It also covers construction methods of substructures and superstructures to accommodate soil conditions, and how they age and fail.
And, in keeping with InterNACHI's commitment to Continuing Education,
this course is open and free to all members, and can be taken
again and again, without limit.
Reminder to members: InterNACHI's Code of Ethics
1.10 requires that you comply with all government rules and licensing
requirements of the jurisdiction where you conduct business.
InterNACHI's courses and Standards generally exceed the Standards of
Practice that you are required to abide by locally.
Objective:
After successful completion of
this course, the student will be able to:
- inspect building structures and the various affects the soil has on those structures that bear upon it;
- identify soils types and
describe their characteristics and soils can affect structures; and
- document common types of sub- and super-structures, their basic design
criteria, and how they age and fail, including common defects.
Topics include:
- What is Soil?
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Heaving
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Subsidence
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Quiz #1
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Collapsible Soils
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Compressible Soils
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Dolomite and Limestone Settlement
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Soil Shear Strength
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Quiz #2
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Fill
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Inadequate Compaction
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Moisture in Soil
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Quiz #3
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Case Studies
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Tree-related Problems
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Tree-related Problems
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Quiz #4
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Substructures
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Site Preparation
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Foundation Function
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Quiz #5
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Raft Foundations
- Pile/Pier Foundations
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Non-bearing Foundations
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Quiz #6
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Foundation Cracks
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Inspecting Foundations
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Heaving and Subsidence
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Quiz #7
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Shrinkage Cracks
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Crazing
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Corner Cracking
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Reactive Aggregate
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Quiz #8
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Reinforcement Steel Corrosion
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Rising damp
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Quiz #9
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Efflorescence
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Concrete Surface Damage
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Flaking and Spalling
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Dusting Concrete
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Problems Related to Placing Concrete
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Quiz #10
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Superstructure
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Glossary of Terms for Superstructures
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Quiz #11
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Inspection of Superstructures
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Cracking in Masonry
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Quiz #12
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Crack diagnosis
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Inspection Considerations
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Quiz #13
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Conclusion
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Course includes:
- 4 CE credit hours;
- 94 quiz questions in 13 quizzes;
- 100-question final exam (drawn from a larger pool);
- instant grading; and
- a downloadable, printable Certificate of Completion.
Upon completion of this course and passing of
the 100-question final exam (drawn from a larger pool), the student can
download and print their own
Certificate of Completion which is auto-generated in their own name.
The student's (InterNACHI member's) information is recorded on
InterNACHI's servers for membership compliance verification, and
automatically logs completion into InterNACHI's online Continuing
Education log. It counts as four InterNACHI
Continuing Education hours.
Some features which make InterNACHI's courses superior to existing continuing education options:
- The course is free for all InterNACHI members.
- The course is written in pure XHTML code for quick
loading. The course loads fine on old computers and loads fast, even
with dial-up.
- The course is designed using a hierarchal menu
coupled with a sequential page navigation. This provides the student
with the option to easily repeat areas of weakness.
- The course permits the student to start, stop and restart any part of the course as often as desired.
- There are a variety of images within the course, including diagrams, illustrations and pictures of actual roofs.
- The illustrations can be enlarged for clearer viewing by clicking on them.
- The text is integrated into InterNACHI's Inspector Glossary. Rolling over blue-colored terms provides their definition.
- The final exam uses multiple-choice questions that reference the images.
- The course's quizzes and final exam have numerous advantages over traditional exam systems:
- The course, quizzes and final exam incorporate
built-in intelligence which identifies and strengthens each student's
unique subject weaknesses.
- Not only is each question weighted with regard to
score, but each answer is weighted, as well as the correctness of each
answer being weighted.
- Answers to easy questions are weighted such that the
student is penalized, in terms of score, for answering incorrectly, but
rewarded modestly for answering correctly.
- Answers to difficult questions are weighted such that
the student is rewarded, in terms of score, for answering correctly,
but not penalized for answering incorrectly.
- Answers to questions regarding basic safety, or
questions every inspector should know the answer to, are weighted such
that the student is severely penalized, in terms of score, for answering
incorrectly.
- Upon passing the final exam, the student can print out a Certificate of Completion which is auto- generated in their own name.
The student's (InterNACHI member's) information is
recorded on InterNACHI's servers for membership compliance verification,
and automatically logs completion into InterNACHI's online Continuing
Education log.
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