Advanced Soil Mechanics detailed syllabus scheme for Civil Engineering (CV), 2018-19 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 6th Sem Scheme of Civil Engineering (CV), 2018-19 Onwards, do visit CV 6th Sem Scheme, 2018-19 Onwards. For the Elective-III scheme of 6th Sem 2018-19 onwards, refer to CV 6th Sem Elective-III Scheme 2018-19 Onwards. The detail syllabus for advanced soil mechanics is as follows.
Advanced Soil Mechanics Syllabus for Civil Engineering (CV) 3rd Year 6th Sem 2018-19 DBATU
Prerequisites:
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Module 1: Introduction to Clay Minerals (6 Lectures)
Introduction to Clay minerology;Gravity forces, surface forces and their dependency on particle size; Primary and Secondary valence bonds; Structural units of clay minerals; Electrical charges on clay minerals; Structural composition and behavior of the minerals like Kaolinite, Montmorillonite, Illite, Halloysite etc.
Module 2: Stress Distribution in Soil (8 Lectures)
Boussinesqs equation for point load, vertical pressure under loaded circular area and uniformly loaded rectangular area. Newmarks method for uniformly distributed loads, preparation and use of Newmarks chart.
Module 3: Earth work and Earth moving Equipments (4 Lectures)
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Module 4: Ground Improvement and Modifications (6 Lectures)
Improvement by excavating and replacing, mixing additives, applications, in-situ ground improvement- compaction piles, compaction with dynamics loads, pre-loading using sand drains, grouting, replacing existing soils with stronger soil in bore hole, response of sands and clays to externally applied stress, impact compaction of sands, vibratory compaction in sands, types of drains.
Module 5: Reinforced Soils (6 Lectures)
Soil reinforcement and its applications, Mechanism of soil reinforcement; Geosynthetics: Introduction; Geotextile, Geojute, Geomembrane, Geogrid, Applications of Geosynthetics in Civil Engineering, testing of geotextile, using Geogrids as a reinforcements, design with geo-synthetics.
Module 6: Grouting and injection methods (6 Lectures)
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Text Books:
- Murthy V.N.S., Soil Mechanics & Foundation Engineering, U.B.S. Pub. And Distri. N. Delhi
- Punmia B.S., Soil Mechanics & Foundation Engineering, Laxmi Publications
- Arora K. R., Soil MechanicsStandard Publishers, N. Delhi
- Shashi K Gulathi and ManojDatta, Geotechnical Engineering, Mc-Graw Hill Publications (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Reference Books:
- 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 mechanicsJohn Willey and Sons, New-York
- Scott R. F., Principal of soil mechanics
- Lambe T.W, Soil Testingby Willey Eastern Ltd., New Delhi
- Donald P. Coduto, Man-Chu Ronald Yeung, William A. Kitch, Geotechnical Engineering, Pearson Publications
Course Outcomes:
On completion of the course, the students will be able to:
- CO1: Behavior of soil based on its particle size and mineral content
- CO2: Ability to understand the Earth work equipment
- CO3: Ability to understand the necessity of ground improvement and potential of a ground for improvement
- CO4: Understand the soil reinforcement mechanisms
- CO5: Understand the grouting and injection methods.
For detail syllabus of all subjects of Civil Engineering (CV) 6th Sem 2018-19 onwards, visit CV 6th Sem Subjects of 2018-19 Onwards.