PE Exam (Civil) Study Guide
Comprehensive coverage of every major sub-topic on the PE Exam (Civil), free.
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Construction
- Construction Operations and Equipment Productivity
- Earned Value Management: CV, SV, CPI, SPI
- Earthwork: Excavation, Embankment, Mass Haul
- Estimating: Quantity Takeoff and Unit Costs
- Health and Safety: OSHA Subparts M, P, R Fall Protection / Excavation / Steel Erection
- Material Quality Control and Concrete Production
- Project Administration: Contracts, Claims, Change Orders, RFIs
- Scheduling: CPM, Resource Leveling, Delay Analysis
- Temporary Structures: Formwork, Shoring, Falsework, Bracing
Geotechnical
- Consolidation and Settlement: Primary, Secondary, Time Rate
- Deep Foundations: Driven and Drilled Pile Capacity, Group Effects
- Effective Stress, Pore Pressure, and Seepage
- Lateral Earth Pressure: Rankine, Coulomb, At-rest
- Shallow Foundations: Bearing Capacity (Terzaghi, Meyerhof, Hansen)
- Shear Strength: Mohr-Coulomb, Undrained vs Drained
- Site Investigation and Lab Testing: SPT, CPT, UU/CU/CD Triaxial
- Slope Stability: Limit Equilibrium, Infinite Slope, Bishop, Janbu
- Soil Classification: USCS, AASHTO, Atterberg Limits
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