CE3503 Foundation Engineering
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Subject Info:
| Semester | Fifth Semester |
| Department | CIVIL |
| Year | Third Year |
| Regulation | R 2021 |
| Subject Code / Name | CE3503 Foundation Engineering |
| Content | Local Authors Books, Lecture Notes |
Syllabus:
CE3503 Foundation Engineering
UNIT I SITE INVESTIGATION AND SELECTION OF FOUNDATION
Scope and objectives – Methods of exploration – Auguring and boring – Wash boring and rotary drilling – Depth and spacing of bore holes – Soil samples – Representative and undisturbed – Sampling methods – Split spoon sampler, Thin wall sampler, Stationary piston sampler – Penetration tests (SPT and SCPT) – Data interpretation – Strength parameters and Evaluation of Liquefaction potential – Selection of foundation based on soil condition- Bore log report.
UNIT II BEARING CAPACITY OF SHALLOW FOUNDATION
Introduction – Location and depth of foundation – Codal provisions – Bearing capacity of shallow foundation on homogeneous deposits – Terzaghi’s formula and BIS formula – Factors affecting bearing capacity – Bearing capacity from in-situ tests (SPT, SCPT and plate load) – Allowable bearing pressure – Seismic considerations in bearing capacity evaluation. Determination of Settlement of foundations on granular and clay deposits – Total and differential settlement – Allowable settlements – Codal provision – Methods of minimizing total and differential settlements.
UNIT III FOOTINGS AND RAFTS
Types of Isolated footing, Combined footing, Mat foundation – Contact pressure and settlement distribution – Proportioning of foundations for conventional rigid behaviour – Minimum depth for rigid behaviour – Applications – Floating foundation – Special foundations – Seismic force consideration – Codal provision
UNIT IV PILE FOUNDATION
Types of piles and their functions – Factors influencing the selection of pile – Carrying capacity of single pile in granular and cohesive soil – Static formula – Dynamic formulae (Engineering news and Hileys) – Capacity from insitu tests (SPT, SCPT) – Negative skin friction – Uplift capacity- Group capacity by different methods (Field’s rule, Converse – Labarra formula and block failure criterion) –
Settlement of pile groups – Interpretation of pile load test (routine test only), Under reamed piles – Capacity under compression and uplift – Codal provision.
UNIT V RETAINING WALLS
Plastic equilibrium in soils – Active and passive states – Rankine’s theory – Cohesionless and cohesive soil – Coulomb’s wedge theory – Condition for critical failure plane – Earth pressure on retaining walls of simple configurations – Culmann Graphical method – Pressure on the wall due to line load – Stability analysis of retaining walls – Codal provision.