Geotechnical & Foundation Engineering (CE3333)

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Foundation Analysis And Design By Joseph E. Bowles (5^th Edition), McGraw-Hill 57

Principles Of Foundation Engineering By Braja M. Das 5th Ed, Thomson-Engineering

Soil Mechanics In Engineering Practice By K. Terzaghi And R. B.

Peck John Wiley And Sons, 3rd Edition

Elements Of Foundation Design By G. N. Smith And E. L. Pole

Harper Collins Distribution Services (February 12, 1981)

Foundation Design: Principles And Practices, Donald P. Coduto

Prentice Hall; 2nd Edition (July 20, 2000)

1. To enhance the skills related to bearing capacity and settlement evaluation of soils.

2. To apply principles of soil mechanics to engineering problems pertaining to retaining structures, foundations and embankments.

CLO:1            Gain thebasic concepts related to bearing capacity and settlement evaluation of soils.

CLO:2            Have a skill to apply the principles of soil mechanics to engineering problems pertaining to retaining structures, foundations and embankments.

CLO:3            Learnsoil improvements techniques and principles of soil dynamics.

• Definition, pressure at rest, active and passive earth pressures
• Coulomb’s and Rankine’s theories
• Bell’s equation for cohesive frictional soils
• Earth pressure diagrams for different loading configurations

• Definition of gross, net, ultimate, safe and allowable bearing capacity

• Presumptive values from codes, from plate load test
• Bearing capacity theories
• Bearing capacity from SPT and CPT data

• Definition, total settlement, differential settlement, angular distortion, immediate settlement
• Primary and secondary consolidation settlements
• Normally and pre-consolidated soils
• Mechanics of consolidation, theory of one dimensional consolidation, assumptions and validity
• Determination of compression index and coefficient of consolidation, magnitude and time rate of consolidation settlement
• Causes of settlement and methods of controlling settlement
• Allowable total and differential settlement

• Types of slopes
• Factors affecting stability and remedies
• Types of failure

• Ordinary methods of slices
• Taylor’s stability number method
• Swedish circle method

• Definition of an earth dam, types of earth and rock fill dams
• Components of an earth dam and their functions
• General design considerations and typical cross-sections

• Types of piles, load carrying capacity of piles, group action, negative skin friction, pile load test

• Basic principles
• Objectives and methods

• Sources of dynamic loading, spring-mass-dashpot system
• Application to machine foundations, liquefaction