Applied Geotechnical Engineering detail syllabus for Civil Engineering (Civil), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17CV53), 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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Course Objectives:
This course will enable students to
- Appreciate basic concepts of soil mechanics as an integral part in the knowledge of Civil Engineering. Also to become familiar with foundation engineering terminology and understand how the principles of Geotechnology are applied in the design of foundations
- Learn introductory concepts of Geotechnical investigations required for civil engineering projects emphasizing in situ investigations
- Conceptually learn various theories related to bearing capacity of soil and their application in the design of shallow foundations and estimation of load carrying capacity of pile foundation
- Estimate internal stresses in the soil mass and application of this knowledge in proportioning of shallow and deep foundation fulfilling settlement criteria
- Study about assessing stability of slopes and earth pressure on rigid retaining structures
Module 1
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Module 2
Stress in Soils: Introduction, Boussinesq’s and Westergaard’s theory concentrated load, circular and rectangular load, equivalent point load method, pressure distribution diagrams and contact pressure, Newmark’s chart Foundation Settlement – Approximate method for stress distribution on a horizontal plane, Types of settlements and importance, Computation of immediate and consolidation settlement
Module 3
Lateral Earth Pressure: Active, Passive and earth pressure at rest, Rankine’s theory for cohesionless and cohesive soils, Coulomb’s theory, Rebhann’s and Culmann’s graphical construction. Stability of Slopes : Assumptions, infinite and finite slopes, factor of safety, use of Taylor’s stability charts, Swedish slip circle method for C and C-0 (Method of slices) soils, Fellineous method for critical slip circle
Module 4
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Module 5
Pile Foundations: Types and classification of piles, single loaded pile capacity in
cohesionless and cohesive soils by static formula, efficiency of file group, group capacity of piles in cohesionless and cohesive soils, negative skin friction, pile load tests, Settlement of piles, under reamed piles (only introductory concepts – no derivation)
Course Outcomes:
On the completion of this course students are expected to attain the following outcomes.
- Ability to plan and execute geotechnical site investigation program for different civil engineering projects
- Understanding of stress distribution and resulting settlement beneath the loaded footings on sand and clayey soils
- Ability to estimate factor of safety against failure of slopes and to compute lateral pressure distribution behind earth retaining structures
- Ability to determine bearing capacity of soil and achieve proficiency in proportioning shallow isolated and combined footings for uniform bearing pressure
- Capable of estimating load carrying capacity of single and group of piles
Text Books:
- Gopal Ranjan and Rao A.S.R., Basic and Applied Soil Mechanics, New Age International (P) Ltd., New Delhi.
- Punmia B C, Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Laxmi Publications co., New Delhi.
- Murthy V.N.S., Principles of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, UBS Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi.
- Braja, M. Das, Geotechnical Engineering; Thomson Business Information India (P) Ltd., India
Reference Books:
- T.W. Lambe and R.V. Whitman, Soil Mechanics-, John Wiley & Sons
- Donald P Coduto, Geotechnical Engineering- Phi Learning Private Limited, New Delhi
- Shashi K. Gulathi & Manoj Datta, Geotechnical Engineering-. , Tata McGraw Hill Publications
- Debashis Moitra, Geotechnical Engineering, Universities Press.,
- Malcolm D Bolton, A Guide to soil mechanics, Universities Press.,
- Bowles J E , Foundation analysis and design, McGraw- Hill Publications
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