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CE3019: Earth and Earth Retaining Structures syllabus for Civil 2021 regulation (Professional Elective-III)

Earth and Earth Retaining Structures detailed syllabus for Civil Engineering (Civil) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Civil students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.

For Civil Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Civil 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to Civil Professional Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of earth and earth retaining structures is as follows.

Earth and Earth Retaining Structures

Course Objectives:

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Unit I

EARTH PRESSURE THEORIES 9 Introduction – State of stress in retained soil mass – Earth pressure theories – Classical and graphical techniques (Culmanns method) – Active and passive cases – Earth pressure due to external loads.

Unit II

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Unit III

SHEET PILE WALLS 9 Types of sheet piles – Analysis and design of cantilever and anchored sheet pile walls – free earth support method – fixed earth support method. Design of anchor systems – isolated and continuous.

Unit IV

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Unit V

SLURRY SUPPORTED EXACAVATION 9 Slurry supported trenches-basic principles-slurry characteristics-specifications-diaphragm walls-bored pile walls-contiguous pile wall-secant piles-stability analysis.

Course Outcomes:

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Reference Books:

  1. Clayton, C.R.I., Militisky, J. and Woods, R.I., Earth pressure and Earth-Retaining structures, Second Edition, Survey University Press, 1993.
  2. Das, B.M., Principles of Geotechnical Engineering, Fourth Edition, The PWS series in Civil Engineering, 1998.
  3. Militisky, J. and Woods, R., Earth and Earth retaining structures, Routledge,1992.
  4. Winterkorn, H.F. and Fang, H.Y., Foundation Engineering Handbook, GalgotiaBooksource, 2000.
  5. Rowe, R.K., Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Handbook, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.
  6. Koerner, R.M. Designing with Geosynthetics, Third Edition, Prentice Hall, 1997.
  7. Day, R.W., Geotechnical and Foundation Engineering: Design and Construction, McGraw Hill, 1999.
  8. Mandal, J.N., Reinforced Soil and Geotextiles, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1993.
  9. McCarthy, D.F., Essentials of Soil Mechanics and Foundations: Basic Geotechnics, Sixth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002.
  10. Hajnal, I., Marton, J. and Regele, Z., Construction of diaphragm walls, A Wiley – Interscience Publication, 1984.
  11. Petros P. Xanthakos., Slurry walls as structural systems, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, 1994.
  12. Bramhead, E.N., The Stability of Slopes, Blacky Academic and Professionals Publications, Glasgow, 1986.
  13. Muni Budhu, Soil Mechanics and Foundation, John Wiley and Sons, INC 2007.

For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Civil Engineering 5th Sem, visit Civil 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.

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