JNTUH B.Tech 3rd year (3-2) Foundation Engineering gives you detail information of Foundation Engineering R13 syllabus It will be help full to understand you complete curriculum of the year.
UNIT -I
Soil Exploration: Need – Methods of soil exploration – Boring and Sampling methods – Penetration Tests – Plate load test – Pressure meter – planning of Programme and preparation of soil investigation report.
UNIT – II
Slope Stability: Infinite and finite earth slopes – types of failures – factor of safety of infinite slopes – stability analysis by Swedish arc method, standard method of slices, Bishop’s Simplified method – Taylor’s Stability Number-Stability of slopes of earth dams under different conditions.
UNIT – III
Earth Pressure Theories: Rankine’s theory of earth pressure – earth pressures different soils and layered soils – Coulomb’s earth pressure theory – Culmann’s graphical method. RETAINING WALLS: Types of retaining walls – stability of retaining walls against overturning, sliding, bearing capacity and drainage from back fill.
TEXT BOOKS
- Das, B.M., – (2012) Principles of Foundation Engineering -Cengage Learning
- Basic and Applied Soil Mechanics by Gopal Ranjan & ASR Rao, New Age International Pvt. Ltd, (2004).
- Geotechnical Engineering : Principles and practices of soil mechanics and foundation Engineering by VNS Murthy, Taylor & Francis Group.
REFERENCES
- Analysis and Design of Substructures — Swami Saran, Oxford and IBH Publishing company Pvt Ltd 1998.
- Geotechnical Engineering by S. K.Gulhati & Manoj Datta — Tata Mc.Graw Hill Publishing company New Delhi. 2005.
- Teng,W.0 — Foundation Design , Prentice Hall, New Jersy.
- Bowles, J.E., (1988) Foundation Analysis and Design — 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill Publishing company, Newyork.
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