Geotechnical Engineering–II [CE-321]

BSc Civil Engineering – 5th Semester

Lecture # 1
6-Sep-2017

by
Dr. Muhammad Irfan
Assistant Professor
Civil Engg. Dept. – UET Lahore
Email: mirfan1@msn.com
Lecture Handouts: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/geotech-ii_2015session
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EVALUATION

• Mid-Term Exam (40%)

• End Term Exam (50%)
• Class Participation (10%)
• Quizzes
• Assignment
• Viva voce
• Attendance

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COURSE INTRO
Course ID: CE-321
Pre-Requisites: Geotechnical Engineering-I
Course Objectives:
To educate the students with the application of knowledge of
Geotechnical Engineering
Class Learning Outcomes (CLOs):
1. To compute the shear stress, bearing capacity and settlement of
various soils
2. To compute the earth pressures
3. To analyze and design slopes
4. To recommend improvements for weak soils by using different
techniques

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 COURSE OUTLINE
Shear Strength: Concept, parameters, Coulomb’s law, shear strength of cohesive and non-
cohesive soils, factors affecting shear strength of soil and its application in
engineering, laboratory and field tests for determination of shear strength.
Stress Distribution in Soils: Geo-static stresses, total and pore pressure, effective stresses,
vertical stresses induced due to structural lads: Westergaurd and Boussinesque’s
theories. Pressure bulb, stress distribution diagrams on horizontal and vertical planes.
Stress at a point outside the loaded area, Newmak’s influence charts, Fadum,
Steinnbrenner charts.
Settlement Analysis: Definition, total settlement, differential settlement, angular
distortion, consolidation settlement, elastic or immediate settlement, settlement
calculations, primary and secondary consolidation settlement, immediate settlement
of cohesive and non-cohesive soils, causes of settlements and methods of controlling
settlement, limits of allowable, total and differential settlement.
Bearing Capacity of Soils & Introduction to Foundation Engineering: Definition of
ultimate and safe bearing capacities, allowable bearing capacity, gross and net
bearing capacity, Methods of obtaining bearing capacity: Presumptive values from
codes; merits and demerits, From plate load test, Bearing capacity theories, Bearing
capacity from SPT and CPT data.
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 COURSE OUTLINE
Earth Pressure: Definition, pressure at rest, active and passive earth pressure, Coulomb’s
and Rankine’s theories, trial wedge and Culmann’s method, earth pressure diagrams
for different configurations of loading.
Slope Stability: Types of slopes, factors affecting stability and remedies, types of failure,
Methods of analysis; Swedish circular method, Taylor’s slope stability number and
Bishop’s method.
Earth and Rock Fill Dams: Definition of an earth dam, types of earth and rock fill dams,
components of an earth dam and their functions. General design considerations and
typical cross section.
Introduction to Soil Improvement:

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LECTURE DELIVERY PLAN (Tentative)
Week 1 Introduction of shear strength & Stresses in soil, overburden stress, total stress,
pore pressure and effective stress and related problems, Mohr circles of stresses

Week 2 Determination of shear strength of soil (Direct shear test, Unconfined

compression test, Triaxial Compression test, etc)

Week 3 Numerical problems related to shear strength

Stress due to external load, Approximate method, Boussinesque theory and

related problems.
Week 4 Numerical examples & Stress at a point outside the laoded area, Newmark’s
influence charts and related problems.

Week 5 Westergaard theory, pressure bulb, stress distribution diagram for different
foundation pads.

Week 6 Settlement, types of settlement, causes of settlement and remedial measures

Week 7 Settlement calculation methods and numerical problems

Week 8 Quiz 1 + Mid Semester Exam

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LECTURE DELIVERY PLAN (Tentative)
Week 9 Introduction to bearing capacity, Definitions of bearing capacity types,
Terzaghi’s bearing capacity theory, General bearing capacity equation,
Related Numerical Problems
Week 10 Lab methods of determining bearing capacity, Field methods of determining
bearing capacity
Week 11 Earth pressure, definition of active and passive earth pressure, earth pressure
at rest, active and passive conditions. Mohr circles for different earth pressure
cases, derivation of formulae for earth pressure (Renkine’s Earth Pressure
Theory) and related problems.
Week 12 Coulomb’s Earth Pressure Theory (Trial wedge method), Culmann’s method,
depth of unsupported cut in C-Ф soils and related problems.
Week 13 Slope stability; basic definitions of terms types of slope, causes of slope
failure and remedial measures to stabilize the slopes.
Stability of infinite slopes, related problems, stability of finite slopes and
related problems.
Week 14 Method of ordinary slices for C-Ф soils and related problems.
Numerical examples & Taylor’s slope stability method and related problems.
Bishop’s method of slope stability and related problems.
Week 15 Basic introduction to earth and rockfill dams, tunneling and cofferdams.
Ground improvement techniques (Basic Intro)
Week 16 Quiz 2 + End Term Exam
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SUGGESTED REFERENCE BOOKS
1- Principles of Geotechnical Engineering (7th Edition)
(Braja M. Das)
2- Geotechnical Engineering: Principles & Practices (2nd Edition)
(Coduto, Yeung & Kitch)
3- Essentials of Soil Mechanics and Foundations: Basic Geotechnics
(7th Edition)
(David F. McCarthy)
4- An Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering (2nd Edition)
(Holtz, Kovacs & Shehan)
5- Soil Mechanics
(R. F. Craig)
6- Fundamentals of Soil Mechanics
(M.S. Qureshi & Aziz Akbar)
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