5013: Geotechnical Engineering KL Diploma Syllabus for Civil 5th Sem 2015 Revision SITTTR

Geotechnical Engineering detailed syllabus for Civil Engineering (Civil) for 2015 revision curriculum has been taken from the SITTTRs 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 2015 revision scheme. The detailed syllabus of geotechnical engineering is as follows.

Course Outcomes:

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SPECIFIC OUTCOME

Upon completion of the study, the student should be able to: MODULE – I

1. Understand origin of soil and importance of geotechnical engineering
   1. Define the term soil.
   2. Explain origin of soil.
   3. Explain the importance of soil Engineering.
   4. List the applications of soil mechanics.
   5. Identify the types of residual and transported soils.
   6. State the three phase system of soil
   7. Illustrate three phase system of soil mass
   8. Define the terms: water content, bulk unit weights, dry unit weight unit weight of solids, saturated unit weight, submerged unit weight, sp:gravity of soil, void ratio, porosity, degree of saturation, percentage of air voids, air content, and density index.
   9. Derive the functional relationships between various properties.
   10. Solve problems using functional relationships.
2. Understand the index properties of soil
   1. Describe the determination of water content of soil by oven drying
   2. Describe the determination of specific gravity of soil
   3. Describe the methods of particle size analysis
   4. Describe the procedure of sieve analysis for fine and coarse fractions (wet and dry sieve analysis)
   5. Describe procedure of hydrometer method
   6. Describe the procedure of calibration of hydrometer
   7. Describe the corrections to the hydrometer readings
   8. Describe the particle size distribution curves
   9. Identify well graded, uniform graded and poorly graded soil samples.
   10. Estimate uniformity co-efficient and effective size
   11. Define the engineering properties of soil
   12. Define field density of soil.
   13. Describe the procedure of sand replacement method
   14. Describe the procedure of core cutter method
   15. Give the necessity of classification of soils
   16. Give the IS classification of soils
3. Understand Consistency of soils
   1. State Atterberg’s limits of soil.
   2. Describe the procedure for determination of liquid limits, plastic limits, shrinkage limits
   3. Define the terms shrinkage ratio, plasticity index.

MODULE – II

1. Understand Soil water.
   1. Define the terms free water, held water/adsorbed water and capillary water
   2. Explain effective pressure, pore pressure and neutral pressure
2. Understand Permeability of soil
   1. Define permeability
   2. State Darcy’s law
   3. Define discharge and seepage velocity
   4. List the factors affecting permeability
   5. Describe constant and varying head methods for finding coefficient of permeability
   6. Determine of coefficient of permeability by constant and varying head test method
3. Understand the compaction of soil
   1. List the objectives of compaction of soil
   2. Describe the procedure of Standard and Modified Proctor test.
   3. Plot the compaction curve and explain the features (OMC, maximum dry density)
   4. Describe the various field compaction methods
   5. Explain the factors affecting compaction.

MODULE – III

1. Understand the basic concept of soil exploration
   1. List objectives of site explorations
   2. Need of site reconnaissance
   3. Identify the depth of exploration
   4. Identify the number and position of pits and boring
   5. Need of general and detailed exploration
   6. Describe the various methods of the explorations
   7. List the soil samplers
   8. Define undisturbed and disturbed samples
   9. Describe the method of Standard Penetration test
   10. Describe geophysical methods.
2. Understand the basic concept of bearing capacity of a soil
   1. Define ultimate bearing capacity, safe bearing capacity and allowable bearing pressure.
   2. Explain the types of failure analysis – general and local shear failure
   3. State Terzaghi’s theory of bearing capacity
   4. Identify effect of water table on bearing capacity.
   5. Describe the plate load test.
   6. List the limitations of plate load test.

MODULE – IV

1. Comprehend the type of foundation to be adopted for a particular soil condition
   1. Define the term foundation
   2. Identify the objectives of foundation
   3. Distinguish shallow and deep foundation
   4. Identify different types of shallow foundations with sketches
   5. Describe the proportioning of rectangular footing.
   6. State Rankine’s theory for foundation design.
   7. Design of strip or continuous footing based on Rankine’s theory.
   8. Identify various classifications of pile foundation
   9. Describe pile erection methods.
   10. Draw the shapes and component parts of well foundation.
   11. Describe the method of well sinking and correcting tilting
   12. Identify the causes of failure of foundation and rectifying methods.

MODULE – I

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MODULE – II

Soil water – classification – absorbed water – capillary water – stress condition in soil Effective and neutral pressures – Permeability of soil – Darcy’s law – discharge velocity and seepage velocity – factors affecting permeability – Determination of coefficient of permeability – constant head permeability test – falling head permeability test- coefficient of permeability estimation problems. Compaction of soil- Definition and objectives of compaction – Standard Proctor test and modified proctor test – concept of O.M.C and maximum dry density – Zero air voids line – field compaction methods – factors affecting compaction.

MODULE – III

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MODULE – IV

Foundation engineering-different types of foundations – proportioning of foundations – rectangular footing. Design of strip footing using Rankine’s equation. Deep foundations: – Pile foundation – necessity of pile foundation – classification of piles according to materials, mode of transfer of loads, method of installation, use and displacement of soil. Well foundations/caissons – shapes of wells and component parts – well sinking – tilts and shifts – measures for rectification of tilts and shifts.

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