CE-802 (B) · Foundation Engineering/Official Syllabus
Foundation Engineering (CE-802 (B)) - Official Syllabus
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Unit 1
Selection of foundation and Sub-soil exploration/investigation
- Types of foundation
- Factors affecting the selection of type of foundations
- Steps in choosing types of foundation based on soil condition
- Objectives and planning of exploration program
- methods of exploration-wash boring and rotary drilling
- depth of boring
- Soil samples and soil samplers-representative and undisturbed sampling
- Field penetration tests: SPT, SCPT, DCPT
- Introduction to geophysical methods
- Bore log
- report writing
2
Unit 2
Shallow Foundation
- Introduction
- significant depth
- design criteria
- modes of shear failures
- Detail study of bearing capacity theories (Prandtl, Rankine, Terzaghi, Skempton, Meyerhof)
- Bearing capacity determination using IS Code
- Settlement
- components of settlement & its estimation
- permissible settlement
- Proportioning of footing for equal settlement
- allowable bearing pressure
- Bearing capacity from in-situ tests (SPT, SCPT, PLATE LOAD)
- Factors affecting bearing capacity
- Contact pressure under rigid and flexible footings
- Floating foundation
3
Unit 3
Pile foundations
- Introduction
- Load transfer mechanism
- Types of piles and their function
- Factors influencing selection of pile
- their method of installation and their load carrying characteristics for cohesive and granular soils
- Piles subjected to vertical loads
- pile load carrying capacity from static formula
- dynamic formulae (ENR and Hiley)
- Pile load test
- Pile group: carrying capacity, efficiency and settlement
- Negative skin friction
4
Unit 4
Foundations on problematic soil & Introduction to Geosynthetics
- Significant characteristics of expansive and collapsible soils
- footing on such soils
- Problems and preventive measures
- Under-reamed pile foundation-its concept
- design & field installation
- Introduction to geosynthetics-materials
- types
- functions and uses
5
Unit 5
LATERAL EARTH PRESSURE and RETAINING WALLS
- Active, Passive and Earth pressure at rest
- Rankinee28099s theory of earth pressure
- Earth pressures in layered soils
- Coulombe28099s earth pressure theory
- Culmanne28099s graphical method
- Types of retaining walls
- stability of retaining walls against overturning, sliding, bearing capacity
- drainage from backfill
- Reinforced earth retaining walls
Reference Books
- Text book of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, CBS Publishers
- Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Standard Publishers and Distributors
- Soil Mechanics and Foundations, Laxmi Publications Pvt. Ltd.
- Foundation Analysis and design, McGraw Hill Education
- Analysis, Design of foundations and Retaining Structures, Sarita Prakashan
- Advanced Foundation Engineering, CBS Publishers and Distributors
- Foundation design; principles and practices, Pearson Publication
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