Foundation Engineering

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🎓 Course Title:Foundation Engineering

📈 Course Overview: Unlock the secrets of foundation engineering with this comprehensive course tailored for top technical universities! 💡 Dive deep into subsurface investigations, bearing capacity, settlement analysis, and innovative foundation techniques. Get hands-on insights with real-world applications and cutting-edge testing methods. 🌍

🔄 Unit 1: Subsurface Investigations for Foundations (06 Hours)

  • 🌟 Purpose and planning of subsurface exploration

  • 🔧 Methods: trial pits, borings, exploration holes

  • 🔮 Core recovery, RQD, core log

  • 🛰 Geophysical methods: seismic refraction, electrical resistivity

  • 📝 Sampling: types, degree of disturbance

  • 🌐 Field tests: SPT (N value correction), DCPT, SCPT

  • 🔍 Advanced tests: pressure meter, borelog

  • 📃 Soil investigation report

🔄 Unit 2: Bearing Capacity (06 Hours)

  • 📊 Definitions and shear failure modes

  • 📝 Bearing capacity analysis: Terzaghi, Hanson, Meyerhof, Skempton, Vesic

  • 📖 IS code method for rectangular and circular footings

  • 🌆 Evaluation: plate load test, SPT

  • 🎯 Housel's perimeter shear concept

  • 🌳 Layered soil and water table effects

  • 💡 Eccentricity and presumptive bearing capacity

🔄 Unit 3: Immediate and Consolidation Settlement (06 Hours)

  • 📈 Immediate Settlement: causes, pressure bulb, contact pressure

  • 🌟 Allowable and differential settlement (IS criteria)

  • 📝 Settlement components, plate load test, SPT

  • 💡 Consolidation: spring analogy, Terzaghi's theory

  • 🎓 Lab test, coefficient of consolidation

  • 🌐 Time fitting methods: square root, logarithm of time

  • 📖 Normal, over, and pre-consolidation pressure

🔄 Unit 4: Pile Foundations (06 Hours)

  • 🌟 Introduction and pile classification

  • 🔧 Installation: cast in-situ, driven, bored piles

  • 📝 Load capacity: static and dynamic methods (ENR, Hiley formula)

  • 💪 Pile load tests: cyclic and standard

  • 🛠️ Group action: field rule, rigid block method

  • 🔬 Negative skin friction and uplift capacity

  • 📈 Settlement of pile groups in cohesive soil

  • 🛠️ Micro piles: introduction and uses

🔄 Unit 5: Shallow Foundations, Piers, and Caissons (06 Hours)

  • 📝 Shallow Foundations: types, applications, location, depth

  • 🌟 Design principles and proportioning steps

  • 📝 Combined footings: rectangular, trapezoidal, strap footings

  • 🌐 Raft foundations: types, floating raft, design principles

  • 🛠️ Piers and Caissons: types and uses

  • 📝 Well foundation: components, sand island method

  • 🔄 Tilt and shift precautions and remedies

  • 🔄 Lateral stability: Terzaghi, IRC, ultimate soil resistance

🔄 Unit 6: Cofferdams and Foundation on Black Cotton Soils (06 Hours)

  • 💧 Cofferdams: types and applications

  • 💡 Contiguous pile walls and RC diaphragm wall

  • 🌱 Black cotton soil: characteristics, swelling potential

  • 🔬 Engineering problems, swelling pressure measurement

  • 🌟 Foundations: design principles, construction techniques

  • 🔧 Under-reamed piles, stone columns

  • 🌐 Preloading with vertical/sand drains

🏆 Why Enroll in This Course?

  • 🔬 Tailored for premier technical universities

  • 🔄 Real-world engineering applications

  • 💡 Hands-on understanding of field tests

  • 🌟 Master advanced foundation engineering concepts

🎉 Join us today and build a strong foundation for your engineering career! 🌟

 

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