Geotechnical Engineering detail syllabus for Civil Engineering (Civil), 2019-20 scheme is taken from AKTU official website and presented for AKTU students. The course code (RCE501), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/Week, Practical Hr/Week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration, and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.
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Unit 1
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Unit 2
Soil Hydraulics: Stress conditions in soil- total, effective and neutral stresses and relationships. Permeability – Darcy’s Law, hydraulic conductivity, equivalent hydraulic conductivity in stratified soil. Seepage, flow nets, seepage calculation from a flow net, flow nets in anisotropic soils, seepage through earth dam, capillarity, critical hydraulic gradient and quick sand condition, uplift pressure, piping.
Unit 3
Soil compaction, water content – dry unit weight relationships. Factors controlling compaction. Field compaction equipment; field compaction control; Proctor needle method.
Consolidation: Primary and secondary consolidation, Terzaghi’s one dimensional theory of consolidation, Consolidation test, Normal and Over Consolidated soils, Over Consolidation Ratio, determination of coefficient of consolidation, Contact pressure
Unit 4
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Unit 5
Sub surface structure: Bearing capacity of shallow foundations, SPT, Plate load test; Effect of water table.
Deep foundations: Types of piles, Static and dynamic formulae, Pile group, Settlement of Pile Group, Negative skin friction.
Reference Books:
- V.N.S. Murthy – Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (Fifth Edition)
- K.R. Arora – Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering
- Narasinga Rao, B.N.D, Soil Mechanics & Foundation Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Wiley India Pvt. Ltd., Daryaganj, New Delhi – 110 002.
- Alam Singh – Modern Geotechnical Engineering
- Brij Mohan Das – Geotechnical Engineering, CENGAGE Learning
- I.H. Khan – Text Book of Geotechnical Engineering
- C. Venkataramaiah – Geotechnical Engineering
- Gopal Ranjan and A.S.R. Rao – Basic and Applied Soil Mechanics
- G.V. Rao & G.V.S.S. Raju – Engineering with Geosynthetics
- P. Purushottam Raj- Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Pearson Education in South Asia, New Delhi.
- Shenbaga R Kaniraj- Design Aids in Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering
- Gulati, S.K., Geotechnical Engineering McGraw Hill Education (India), Pvt. Ltd., Noida.
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