Geotechnical Engineering detailed syllabus scheme for B.Tech Civil Engineering (CV), 2017 onwards has been taken from the DBATU official website and presented for the Bachelor of Technology students. For Subject Code, Course Title, Lecutres, Tutorials, Practice, Credits, and other information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For all other DBATU Syllabus for Civil Engineering 5th Sem 2017, do visit CV 5th Sem 2017 Onwards Scheme. The detailed syllabus scheme for geotechnical engineering is as follows.
Geotechnical Engineering Syllabus for Civil Engineering (CV) 3rd Year 5th Sem 2017 DBATU
Teaching Scheme:
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Pre-requisite:
Solid Mechanics (CV302), Engineering Geology (CV306)
Module 1
Introduction
Definition of soil and soil engineering, Application areas of soil mechanics, Three Phase soil system, Soil moisture, Index properties of soil: Different unit weights of soil, and their determination, unit weight of solids, unit weights of soil mass viz. saturated unit weight, Submerged unit weight, dry unit weight, method for determination of field density viz. sand replacement and core cutter, Specific Gravity determination methods void ratio and porosity, degree of saturation, Inter relation between weight volume state, density indexes
Module 2
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Module 3
Flow of Water Through Soil: Permeability
Head, gradient and potential, Darcys law, Factors affecting permeability, Field and Laboratory methods of determining permeability, Seepage pressure, quick sand condition, Derivation of Laplace equation, Flow net, its characteristics, its application, construction of flow net, piping phenomenon
Module 4
Shear Strength
Concept of shear, Coulombs theory and failure envelope, Principle stress, stress analysis (Total stress approach and effective stress approach), representation of stresses on Mohrs circle for different types of soil such as cohesive and cohesionless, saturated and partly saturated soil etc, Application of shear stress parameters in the field, Different types of shear tests: Unconsolidated undrained, Consolidated undrained and consolidated drained choice of the type of test, box shear test, triaxial compression test with pore pressure and volume change measurement, Unconfined compression test, vane shear test
Module 5
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Module 6
Compressibility and Consolidation
Compressibility: Definition, compressibility of laterally confined soil, compression of sand and clay, e-p and e-log p curve, compression index. Consolidation: Terzaghis theory of one dimensional consolidation, consolidation test, determination of coefficient of consolidation, degree of consolidation, relevance of one dimensional consolidation to field condition, time factor
Text Books:
- Kasamalkar B. J., Geotechnical Engineering, Pune Vidyarthi Griha Prakashan Pune
- Murthy V.N.S., Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, U.B.S. Pub. And Distri. N. Delhi
- Punmia B.S., Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Laxmi Publications
- Arora K. R., Soil Mechanics
Reference Book:
- Alam Singh, Text book of soil mechanics in theory and practice, Asian Pub. House, Mumbai
- Taylor D.W., Fundamentals of Soil mechanics
- Terzaghi and Peak Soil mechanics John Willey and Sons, New-York
- Scott R. F., Principal of soil mechanics
- Lambe T.W, Soil Testing by Willey Eastern Ltd., New Delhi
Course Outcomes:
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For detail syllabus of all other subjects of Civil Engineering (CV) 5th Sem 2017 regulation, visit CV 5th Sem Subjects syllabus for 2017 regulation.