CL 506: FOUNDATION ENGINEERING
Lecture No. 1 to 15 – Prof. Tejas Joshi
Lecture No. 1 to 30 – Dr. Hasan Rangwala (Division A) or Prof. Alka Shah (Division B)
| Sr No | Lecture No | Topics | CLOs |
| Prof Tejas Joshi | |||
| 1 | Introduction of Foundation Engineering and its relevance to practical conditions | 1, 2 | |
| 2 | Soil Investigation: Objectives, Planning, Stages, Depth of Exploration and its lateral extent | 1 | |
| 3 | Methods of Exploration | 1 | |
| 4 | Methods of Exploration, Standard Penetration Test, Vane shear test | 1 | |
| 5 | Bearing capacity: Definition Shear and settlement criteria, Terzaghi’s theory, I.S Code method | 2 | |
| 6 | Bearing capacity from SPT, Plate Load Test, Factors affecting bearing capacity | 2 | |
| 7-9 | Problems on bearing capacity. | 2 | |
| 10 | Consolidation of soil: Introduction, Process and Stages, Spring analogy | 1, 2 | |
| 11 | Consolidation test Procedure, Various coefficients and indexes, | 1, 2 | |
| 12 | Preconsolidation pressure, N.C and O.C soil | 1, 2 | |
| 13 | Settlement of foundation: Types and Causes, Immediate and consolidation settlement. Numerical based on consolidation | 1, 2 | |
| 14 | Final settlement, various examples of settlement, numericals, | 1, 2 | |
| 15 | Innovative Assignment | ||
| Dr. Hasan Rangwala /Prof. Alka Shah | |||
| 1 | Earth Pressure: Active and Passive earth pressure due to cohesive and cohesionless soil | 2 | |
| 2 | Rankine’s earth pressure theory: assumptions and derivation | 2 | |
| 3 | Active and Passive earth pressure due to inclined backfill and water table | 2 | |
| 4 | Coulumb’s Earth pressure theory: assumptions and derivation | 2 | |
| 5 | Graphical methods to calculate earth pressure | 2 | |
| 6 | Problems on earth pressure calculations | 2 | |
| 7 | Design of sheet piling | 2,3 | |
| 8 | Stability of slopes: Slope failure,Factor of safety | 3 | |
| 9 | Stability of infinite slope for cohesive as well as non cohesive soil | 3 | |
| 10 | Swedish circle method | 3 | |
| 11 | Numerical Problems based on slope stability, Improving stability of slopes | 3 | |
| 12 | Design of Foundations: Classification & selection, design criteria | 2 | |
| 13 | Design of Shallow foundation: Spread footing, Strap footing | 2 | |
| 14 | Design of Combined footing | 2 | |
| 15 | Design of Raft Foundation | 2 | |
| 16 | Problems of Foundation Design | 2 | |
| 17 | Pile Foundation: Introduction and Necessity, Static and Dynamic capacity | 2 | |
| 18 | Load Test on pile | 2 | |
| 19 | Pile groups: Single versus pile group.Settlement of pile group | 2 | |
| 20 | Ground Improvement Techniques: Drainage, Dewatering | 3 | |
| 21 | Mechanical stabilization,Chemical stabilization,Stabilizing with cement,lime and flyash | 3 | |
| 22 | Compaction,Stone column method of stabilization, Vibroflotation | 3 | |
| 23 | Reinforced earth,Geotextiles | 3 | |
| 24 | Soil Dynamics | 1 | |
| 25 | Liquefaction and effect of earthquake on foundation. | 1 | |
| 26 | Geophysical methods, Soil Investigation report | 1 | |
| 27 | Introduction to Machine foundation | 1 | |
| 28 | Introduction to soil structure Interaction | 1 | |
| 29 | Innovative assignment and Recap of all the topics covered. | ||
| 30 | Class Test |
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