Foundation Engineering detailed syllabus for Civil Engineering (Civil) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University 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. The detailed syllabus of foundation engineering is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
SITE INVESTIGATION AND SELECTION OF FOUNDATION 9 Scope and objectives – Methods of exploration – Auguring and boring – Wash boring and rotary drilling – Depth and spacing of bore holes – Soil samples – Representative and undisturbed -Sampling methods – Split spoon sampler, Thin wall sampler, Stationary piston sampler – Penetration tests (SPT and SCPT) – Data interpretation – Strength parameters and Evaluation of Liquefaction potential – Selection of foundation based on soil condition- Bore log report.
Unit II
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Unit III
FOOTINGS AND RAFTS 9 Types of Isolated footing, Combined footing, Mat foundation – Contact pressure and settlement distribution – Proportioning of foundations for conventional rigid behaviour – Minimum depth for rigid behaviour – Applications – Floating foundation – Special foundations – Seismic force consideration – Codal provision
Unit IV
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Unit V
RETAINING WALLS 9 Plastic equilibrium in soils – Active and passive states – Rankines theory – Cohesionless and cohesive soil – Coulombs wedge theory – Condition for critical failure plane – Earth pressure on retaining walls of simple configurations – Culmann Graphical method – Pressure on the wall due to line load – Stability analysis of retaining walls – Codal provision.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Murthy, V.N.S., Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, CBS Publishers and Distributers Ltd., New Delhi, 2015.
- Gopal Ranjan and Rao A.S.R. Basic and Applied soil mechanics, New Age International (P) Ltd, New Delhi,2006.
Reference Books:
- Das, B.M. Principles of Foundation Engineering (Eigth edition), Thompson Asia Pvt. Ltd., Singapore, 2017.
- Kaniraj, S.R. Design aids in Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Tata McGraw Hill publishing company Ltd., New Delhi, 2017.
- Varghese, P.C.,Foundation Engineering, Prentice Hall of India Private Limited, New Delhi, 2012.
- Punmia, B.C., Soil Mechanics and Foundations, Laxmi Publications Pvt.Ltd., New Delhi, 2017.
For detailed syllabus of all other subjects of Civil Engineering, 2021 regulation curriculum do visit Civil 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Civil Engineering results, visit Anna University Civil all semester results direct link.