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What is the basic philosophy of engineering geology?
What is one of the premises on which the philosophy of engineering geology is based?
Why might the concept that the structure is an extension of the ground be lost by a particular team member?
Why might no single person have a comprehensive overview of a complete project?
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What problem needs to be assessed in relation to the reaction of the ground to engineering works?
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Why is it important to accommodate the reaction of the ground to engineering works?
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What is essential to determine the engineering behavior of the ground?
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Why is it important to acquire and process data systematically?
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What concept was developed by John Knill and David Price in relation to determining the engineering behavior of the ground?
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What does the engineering behavior of the ground depend on?
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What is required to arrive at the engineering behavior of the ground?
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What is necessary for fulfilling the third premise?
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Why is it important to know the engineering properties and proposed design of the engineering work?
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The engineering behaviour of the ground is not affected by the nature of site geology and the engineering work.
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The acquisition and processing of data can be done haphazardly without the risk of omitting significant factors from the analysis.
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John Knill and David Price developed the concept of three verbal equations to express the sequence of operations for determining the engineering behaviour of the ground.
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The engineering geological matrix is not impacted by the changes produced by the engineering work.
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The system for determining the engineering behaviour of the ground does not need to be devised.
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The third premise of engineering work does not involve designing it to operate within the bounds of site geological conditions without sustaining significant damage.
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The engineering properties and proposed design of the engineering work are not required to determine the engineering behaviour of the ground.
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It is not vital to know the engineering properties and proposed design of the engineering work.
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The problem does not involve arriving at a system to determine the engineering behavior of the ground.
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No single person can have a comprehensive overview of a complete project.
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The philosophy of engineering geology is based on two simple premises.
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The ground will never react to the construction of the engineering work.
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No single person may have a comprehensive overview of the complete project due to sub-division of work between different professionals.
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The structure is not considered as an extension of the ground in the philosophy of engineering geology.
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It is important to assess the magnitude and nature of the reaction of the ground to both the construction and the operation of the project.
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The construction and operation of an engineering work do not affect the reaction of the ground.
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