| S # | Topic |
| SOILEXPLORATION | |
| 1. | Importance of soil exploration and planning of soil exploration program. |
2. | Soil exploration methods: probing, test pits, auger boring, wash percussion and rotary drilling and geophysical methods. Soil samplers: disturbed and undisturbed sampling. |
| 3. | In situ tests: standard penetration test, cone penetration test, and field vane shear test. |
| 4. | Coring of rocks, core recovery and RQD. |
| 5. | Borehole logs and sub soil exploration report. |
| FOUNDATIONS | |
| 6. | Purpose and types of foundations. Selection of foundation type. Types of bearing capacities of foundation. Gross and net pressures on footing. |
| 7. | Failure modes in foundations and their characteristics and criterion. General requirements for foundation design. |
| SHALLOWFOUNDATIONS | |
| 8. | Techniques to obtain bearing capacity of shallow foundations. Development of bearing capacity theory. |
| 9. | Terzaghi’s theories to calculate bearing capacity. Effects of water table. Design of strip, isolated, combined and raft footings. |
| 10. | Bearing capacity theories of Meyerhof’s, Hansen’s, Vesic’s and Skempton’s. |
| 11. | Elastic settlement of shallow foundations based on theory of elasticity. Elastic and consolidation settlement of shallow foundations on saturated clays. Settlement of sandy soil. Presumptive values. |
| 12. | Plate load test. Settlement and bearing pressure measurements and interpretations |
| 13. | Problems on geotechnical design of shallow foundations |
Foundation Engineering
By / June 14, 2024