COURSE CONTANT

CE-321 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING-II

Shear Strength: Concept, parameters, Coulomb's law, shear strength of cohesive and non-cohesive
soils. Factors affecting shear strength of soil and its applications in engineering. Laboratory and field
tests for determination of shear strength.

Stress Distribution in Soils: Geo-static stresses, Total stress and pore pressure, Effective stress,
Vertical stresses induced due to structural loads: Westergaurd and Boussinesq's theories. Pressure bulb,
Stress distribution diagrams on horizontal and vertical planes. Stress at a point outside the loaded area,
Newmark'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 settlements, immediate settlement of cohesive and non-cohesive soils. Causes
of settlements and methods of controlling settlement. Limits of allowable, total and differential
settlement.

Earth Pressures: Definition, pressure at rest, active and passive earth pressures. Coulomb's and
Rankine's theories. Trial wedge and Culmann's method. Earth pressure diagrams for different
configurations loading.

Bearing Capacity of Soils: Definition of ultimate and safe bearing capacities, allowable bearing
capacity, gross and net bearing capacities, Methods of obtaining bearing capacity:

* Presumptive values from codes; merits and demerits,

* From plate toad test,

* Bearing capacity theories,

* Bearing capacity from SPT and CPT data.

Introduction to Foundation Engineering:

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 Methods.

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-
sections.

Introduction to Soil Improvement.