JNTUH B.Tech 3rd Year 1 sem Civil Engineering R13 (3-1) Geotechnical Engineering R13 syllabus.

JNTUH B.Tech 3rd year (3-1) Geotechnical Engineering gives you detail information of Geotechnical Engineering R13 syllabus It will be help full to understand you complete curriculum of the year.

UNIT – I

Introduction  Soil formation – clay mineralogy and soil structure and clay mineralogy – moisture content – weight – volume relationship – Relative density.

Index Properties of Soils  Grain size analysis – Sieve analysis, principle of Hydrometer method – consistency limits and indices – I. S. Classification of soils.

UNIT – II

Permeability  Soil water – capilary rise – flow of water through soils – Darcy’s law – permeability – Factors affecting permeability – laboratory determination of coefficient of permeability – permeability of layered soils – In-situ permeability tests (Pumping in & Pumping out test).

Effective Stress & Seepage Through Soils  Total, neutral and effective stress – principle of effective stress – quick sand condition – Seepage through soils – Flownets: Characteristics and Uses.

UNIT – III

Stress Distribution in Soils  Boussinesq’s and Westergaard’s theories for point load, uniformly loaded circular and rectangular areas, pressure bulb, variation of vertical stress under point load along the vertical and horicontal plane, and Newmark’s influence chart for irregular areas.

Compaction  Mechanism of compaction – factors affecting compaction – effects of compaction on soil properties – Field compaction Equipment – compaction quality control.

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TEXT BOOKS

• Principals of Geotechnical Engineering by Braja M. Das, Cengage Learning Publishers.
• Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering by VNS Murthy, CBS Publishers and Distributors.
• Basic and Applied Soil Mechanics by Gopal Ranjan & ASR Rao, New age International Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi.

REFERENCES

• Geotechnical Engineering by C. Venkataramiah, New age International Pvt. Ltd. (2002).
• Geotechnical Engineering Handbook By Das – JRoss Publishing.
• Geotechnical Engineering Principles and Practices by Cuduto, PHI International.
• Geotechnical Engineering by Manoj Dutta & Gulati S. K – Tata Mc.Graw Hill Publishers New Delhi.
• Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engg. By K. R. Arora, Standard Publishers and Distributors, Delhi.
• Soil Mechanics and Foundation by B. C. Punmia, Ashok Kumar Jain and Arun Kumar Jain, Laxmi, Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.

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