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———, Star F Date; Sep tructions: Open notes and books. Answer all questions completely. umption you need to make in answering any question in this dently. structure is to be founded on a shallow foundation: 2 unit weight of y,,= 16 kN/m’, ¢'=36° and c’=5 kPa. NV, shown in Table 3.1 of the in the textbook by Das d Determine the allowable bearing pressures for a 1.5m square footing founded 1 m b water table is located 20m the na . Given that the water table is located saturated unit weight of the soil is ; strip footing founded 1.5m below the F (u: = 0.5). The depth of the four layer is located 40 ft. below the ye following are the results of a standard penetration test in Depth SPT (m) Neo 1s 3.0 4s 6.0 75 9.0 105 12.0 13.5 15.0 Estimate the net allowable bearing capacity of a with the depth of the foundation Dy= 2m. and n mm. Assume that the unit weight of soil is y = 1 is 100m below the ground surface. 6.2 FOUNDATION ENGINEERING ester 2015-2016 for a square footing size, B=3 meters. Solve for the i ‘Schmertmann method. Same as No, | but use de Beer and Martens (1957) method. Same as No. | but use de Beer and Martens (1965) method. HOMEWORK NO. 1 Redo Example 6.5.2 page 99 of Simons and Menzies b 150 kPa and square footing dimension, B=12 meters. HOMEWORK NO. 6 — Calculation of Pile Capacity 1 The subsurface consists of 20 m of saturated soft all precast concrete pile (40 cm square with 25 m effe: properties and parameters. The water table is at For the pile given in Problem 1, use any pile di calculate the required pile set (s) to achieve For the subsurface conditions given ‘of a. 600 mm diameter x 25m Take-Home Given the following pile data: Pile: 400mm square precast concrete pile Modulus of Concrete: E, = 27,800 MPa Hammer: Vulcan 140c Hammer Efficiency: 0.85 Weight of pile cap block: 7.61 kN Length of pile = 16.0m Set: 6mm/blow for last 300mm (Note: This problem is the same as 17.3 from Bowles, Foundation Analysis and Design 5" Ed.). (a) Determine the ultimatepile capacity using Hiley and ENR equations (b) Determine the ultimate pile capacity using a wave equation analysis assuming that 30% of the axial capacity is carried in end bearing and the skin friction is constant throughout the length of the pile. Write down all assumptions made regarding the soil quake,damping, coefficients of restitution and spring constants you need to make for the cap block and cushion. Submit by emailing answers to mark.zarco@gmail.com no later than 12:00 PM (midnight), May 31, 2015. Include the output from the WEAP analysis you used.

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