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CE8591 Syllabus FOUNDATION ENGINEERING Regulation 2017 Anna University

CE8591 Syllabus FOUNDATION ENGINEERING

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UNIT I SITE INVESTIGATION AND SELECTION OF FOUNDATION 9 CE8591 Syllabus FOUNDATION ENGINEERING

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 – Bore log report and Selection of foundation.

UNIT II SHALLOW FOUNDATION 9 CE8591 Syllabus FOUNDATION ENGINEERING

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 9 CE8591 Syllabus FOUNDATION ENGINEERING

Types of Isolated footing, Combined footing, Mat foundation – Contact pressure and settlement distribution – Proportioning of foundations for conventional rigid behaviour – Minimum thickness for rigid behaviour – Applications – Compensated foundation – Codal provision

UNIT IV PILE FOUNDATION 9 CE8591 Syllabus FOUNDATION ENGINEERING

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 and SCPT) – Negative skin friction – Uplift capacity-Group capacity by different methods (Feld’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 – Cohesive – expansive – non expansive – Cohesionless soils – Codal provisions.

UNIT V RETAINING WALLS 9 CE8591 Syllabus FOUNDATION ENGINEERING

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’s Graphical method – Pressure on the wall due to line load – Stability analysis of retaining walls – Codal provisions.

Subject name FOUNDATION ENGINEERING
Short Name FE
Semester 5
Subject Code CE8591
Regulation 2017 regulation

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