Reinforced Earth Structures detailed Syllabus for Civil Engineering (CIVIL), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information, visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all the other VTU CIVIL 7th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, visit Civil Engineering 7th Sem 2018 Scheme.
For all the (Professional Elective-3) subjects refer to Professional Elective-3 Scheme. The detail syllabus for reinforced earth structures is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Module 1
Basics of Reinforced Earth Construction: Definition, Historical Background, Components, Mechanism and Concept, Advantages and Disadvantage of reinforced earth Construction, Sandwich technique for clayey soil. Geosynthetics and Their Functions: Historical developments, Recent developments, manufacturing process woven &non-woven, Raw materials -Classification based on materials type-Metallic and Non-metallic, Natural and Man-made, Geosynthetics. Properties and Tests on Materials Properties-Physical, Chemical, Mechanical, Hydraulic, Endurance and Degradation requirements, Testing & Evaluation of properties.
Module 2
Design of Reinforced Earth Retaining Walls: Concept of Reinforced earth retaining wall, Internal and external stability, Selection of materials, Typical design problems Soil Nailing Techniques: Concept, Advantages & limitations of soil nailing techniques, comparison of soil nailing with reinforced soil, methods of soil nailing, Construction sequence, Components of system, Design aspects and precautions to be taken.
Module 3
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Module 4
Geosynthetics for Roads and Slopes: Roads-Applications to Temporary and Permanent roads, Role of Geosynthetic in enhancing properties of road, control of mud pumping, Enhancing properties of subgrade, Design requirements Slopes-Causes for slope failure, Improvement of slope stability with Geosynthetic, Drainage requirements, Construction technique. Simple Numerical Stability Checking Problems on Reinforced Slopes.
Module 5
Geosynthetics-filter, drain and landfills: Filter & Drain-Conventional granular filter design criteria, Geosynthetic filter design requirements, Drain and filter properties, Design criteria-soil retention, Geosynthetic permeability, anti clogging, survivability and durability (No Numerical Problems) Landfills-Typical design of Landfills-Landfill liner & cover, EPA Guidelines, Barrier walls for existing landfills and abandoned dumps (No Numerical Problems).
Course Outcomes:
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Question paper pattern:
- The question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks.
- Each full question will be for 20 marks.
- There will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub- questions) from each module.
- Each full question will have sub- question covering all the topics under a module.
- The students will have to answer five full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Text Books:
- Koerner. R.M, Design with Geo synthetics, Prince Hall Publications
- Koerner. R.M. &Wesh, J.P, Construction and Geotechnical Engineering using synthetic fabrics, Wiley Inter Science, New York,.
- Sivakumar Babu G. L., An introduction to Soil Reinforcement and Geo synthetics, Universities Press, Hyderabad
- Swami Saran, Reinforced Soil and its Engineering Applications, I. K. International Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi
- Venkattappa Rao, G., & Suryanarayana Raju., G. V.S, Engineering with Geo synthetics, Tata McGraw Hill publishing Company Limited., New Delhi.
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