Syllabus

JNTUK B.Tech Geotechnical Engineering – II for R13 Batch.

JNTUK B.Tech Geotechnical Engineering – II gives you detail information of Geotechnical Engineering – II R13 syllabus It will be help full to understand you complete curriculum of the year.

Lecture : –— — : 3 hrs/Week Internal Assessment : Marks
Tutorial : — — : 1 Hrs / Week Semester End Examination : Marks
Practical : — Credits : 3

Course Learning Objectives
The objective of this course is:

  • To impart to the student knowledge of types of shallow foundations and theories required for the determination of their bearing capacity.
  • To enable the student to compute immediate and consolidation settlements of shallow foundations.
  • To impart the principles of important field tests such as SPT and Plate bearing test.
  • To enable the student to imbibe the concepts of pile foundations and determine their load carrying capacity.

Course Outcomes
Upon the successful completion of this course:

  • The student must be able to understand the various types of shallow foundations and decide on their location based on soil characteristics.
  • The student must be able to compute the magnitude of foundation settlement and decide on the size of the foundation accordingly.
  • The student must be able to use the field test data and arrive at the bearing capacity.
  • The student must be able to apply the principles of bearing capacity of piles and design them accordingly.

SYLLABUS

UNIT – I : Soil Exploration: Need – Methods of soil exploration – Boring and Sampling methods – Field tests – Penetration Tests – Pressure meter – planning of Programme and preparation of soil investigation report.

UNIT – II : Earth And Earth-Retaining Structures: Infinite and finite earth slopes in sand and clay – types of failures – factor of safety of infinite slopes – stability analysis by Swedish arc method, standard method of slices – Taylor’s Stability Number-Stability of slopes of dams and embankments – different conditions. Rankine’s & Coulomb’s theory of earth pressure – Culmann’s graphical method – earth pressures in layered soils.

UNIT-III : Shallow Foundations – Bearing Capacity Criteria: Types of foundations and factors to be considered in their location – Bearing capacity – criteria for determination of bearing capacity – factors influencing bearing capacity – analytical methods to determine bearing capacity – Terzaghi’s theory – IS Methods.

UNIT-IV : Shallow Foundations – Settlement Criteria: Safe bearing pressure based on N- value – allowable bearing pressure; safe bearing capacity and settlement from plate load test – Types of foundation settlements and their determination – allowable settlements of structures.

UNIT -V : Pile Foundation: Types of piles – Load carrying capacity of piles based on static pile formulae – Dynamic pile formulae– Pile load tests – Load carrying capacity of pile groups in sands and clays.

UNIT-VI : Well Foundations: Types – Different shapes of well – Components of well – functions – forces acting on well foundations – Design Criteria – Determination of steining thickness and plug – construction and Sinking of wells – Tilt and shift.

TEXT BOOKS

  • ‘Principles of Foundation Engineering’by Das, B.M., – (2011) –6th edition (Indian edition) Cengage learning
  • ‘Basic and Applied Soil Mechanics’ by Gopal Ranjan & ASR Rao, New Age International Pvt. Ltd, (2004).

REFERENCES

  • Foundation Analysis and Design’by Bowles, J.E., (1988) – 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, Newyork.
  • ‘Theory and Practice of Foundation Design’ by N.N.SOM & S.C.DAS PHI Learning Private limited.

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