Geotechnical Engineering detailed Syllabus for Civil Engineering (CIVIL), R18 regulation has been taken from the JNTUH official website and presented for the students affiliated to JNTUH course structure. For Course Code, Subject Names, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Credits, and other information do visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the universities official website.
For all other CIVIL 3rd Year 1st Sem Syllabus for B.Tech R18 Regulation JNTUH, do visit CIVIL 3rd Year 1st Sem Syllabus for B.Tech R18 Regulation JNTUH Subjects. The detailed Syllabus for geotechnical engineering is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course the student will able to
- Characterize and classify the soils
- Able to estimate seepage, stresses under various loading conditions and compaction characteristics
- Able to analyse the compressibility of the soils
- Able to understand the strength of soils under various drainage conditions
Unit I
Introduction: Soil formation and structure – moisture content – Mass, volume relationships – Specific Gravity-Field density by core cutter and sand replacement methods-Relative density.
Index Properties of Soils: Grain size analysis – consistency limits and indices – I.S. Classification of soils.
Unit II
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Unit III
Stress Distribution in Soils: Boussinesqs and Westergaards theories for point load, uniformly loaded circular and rectangular areas, pressure bulb, variation of vertical stress under point load along the vertical and horizontal plane, and Newmarks influence chart for irregular areas.
COMPACTION: Mechanism of compaction – factors affecting compaction – effects of compaction on soil properties – Field compaction Equipment – compaction quality control.
Unit IV
Consolidation: Types of compressibility – Immediate Settlement, primary consolidation and secondary consolidation – stress history of clay; e-p and e-log ( p ) curves – normally consolidated soil, over consolidated soil and under consolidated soil – preconsolidation pressure and its determination -Terzaghis 1-D consolidation theory – coefficient of consolidation: square root time and logarithm of time fitting methods – computation of total settlement and time rate of settlement.
Unit V
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Text Books:
- Basic and Applied Soil Mechanics by Gopal Ranjan and ASR Rao, New age International Pvt Ltd,
- Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering by VNS Murthy, CBS Publishers and Distributors.
- Foundation Engineering by P.C. Varghese, PHI
Reference Books:
- Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engg. By K.R. Arora, Standard Publishers and Distributors, Delhi.
- Principals of Geotechnical Engineering by Braja M. Das, Cengage Learning Publishers.
- Geotechnical Engineering by C. Venkataramiah, New age International Pvt. Ltd, (2002)
- Geotechnical Engineering Principles and Practices by Cuduto, PHI International.
- Geotechnical Engineering by Manoj Dutta and Gulati S.K – Tata McGraw-Hill Publishers New Delhi.
- Soil Mechanics and Foundation by by B.C. Punmia, Ashok Kumar Jain and Arun Kumar Jain, Laxmi, publications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi
For detail Syllabus of all other subjects of B.Tech 3rd Year Civil Engineering, visit CIVIL 3rd Year Syllabus Subjects.
For all B.Tech results, visit JNTUH B.Tech all years, and semester results from direct links.