CE31002: Foundation Engineering
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| Course name | Foundation Engineering | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Offered by | Civil Engineering | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| L-T-P | 3-0-0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Semester | Spring | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Syllabus[edit | edit source]
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Introduction, examples of foundation problems, site characterization, site investigation methods, in situ tests, bearing capacity - general, local and punching shear failure, effect of size, shape, depth and water table, settlement of foundations - elastic, consolidation and total settlement; stress distribution in soil, types of foundation â shallow/deep, isolated, combined, mat etc., contact pressure distribution, basics of design of shallow foundation, deep foundation â type, load transfer mechanism in piles, pile capacity, laterally loaded pile, test pile and pile load test, efficiency of pile group, settlement of pile, stability analysis of different earth retaining structures â gravity, cantilever, counterfort, reinforced earth etc, ground improvement methods.