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You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

• Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
• Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

• Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
• What topics do you think you’ll write about?
• Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
• If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.

Site Investigation: Introduction, Objectives, Planning, Stages, Methods, types of soil samplers and disturbance of soil, Tests.

Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundation: Definitions, Methods of determining Bearing Capacity, Modes of shear failure, Terzaghi’s Bearing capacity theory, IS code method, Effect of water table on bearing capacity, Bearing capacity of footing from Standard Penetration Test and Plate Load Test, Factors affecting bearing capacity of foundation.

Consolidation of Soil: Definition, spring analogy, Experimental determination of compressibility properties (coefficients of compressibility, consolidation and compressibility index).

Earth Pressure and Retaining Structure: Type of earth pressures, Earth pressure at rest, Rankine’s analysis for active and passive earth pressure, Coulumb’s theory for earth pressure evaluation, Culmann’s Graphical approach.

Introduction to design earth retaining structures, analysis and design of sheet pile wall.

Stability of Slopes: Introduction, Factor of safety, types of slope failure, causes of failure, stability analysis for infinite slope, stability analysis for finite slope using Swedish circle method, Fellenius line and its use for stability analysis, application of Taylor’s charts, factors affecting the stability of slope and remedial measures.

Pile Foundations: Classification of pile foundations, Determination of pile capacity by static methods, dynamic formulae, Pile capacity by in-situ penetration method, Pile Load Test

Shallow Foundations: Introduction to shallow foundations, Codal Provisions for footings in different situations.

Introduction to Soil Dynamics: Basic Definitions, SDOF and MDOF systems, Determination of natural frequency and damping ratio of the system, application of SDOF to the foundation problems.

Special Assignment has been uploaded on the course webpage. Click here

Assignment-2 Earth pressure and Retaining Structure

 

Due date of Submission: 14 August, 2015.

Assignment 1:  Pre-requisites is added on the course webpage.

Due date of Submission: Between 13 – 17 July, In the Laboratory Session