CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

Department of Building, Civil and Environmental

Engineering

CIVI – 435 AA- FOUNDATION DESIGN

CIVI - 6501 AA- FOUNDATION ENGINEERING
Summer 2022
May 2 to June 15, 2022
Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday 6.30-9.00 PM

Instructor: Dr. Adel Hanna Office Hours

Office: EV-6.127 Tuesday 5.00- 6.00 PM, or by appointment
Telephone: 848-2424 Ext. 7808 Lectures: MB-5.255
E-mail: am.hanna@concordia.ca Tutorial: MB-S2.105
TA: Linda N’Dri
Email: ahoulindaaurelie.ndri.0938939@concordia.ca

Brief Objectives of the Course (CIVI 435)

This course covers the fundamental of Foundation Engineering, designed to familiarize the
student with theories and practice of Foundation Design, current research, construction,
performance evaluation, and decision-making process. Case histories of foundation
engineering (success/failure) will be presented on regular bases
It is expected that students in this course will acquire the skills to conduct research with
great confidence.

Brief Objectives of the Course (CIVI 6501)

This is an advance level course in Foundation Engineering, designed to familiarize the
student with theories and practice of Foundation Engineering, current research,
construction, performance evaluation, and decision-making process. Case histories of
foundation engineering (success/failure) will be presented on regular bases
It is expected that students in this course will acquire the skills to conduct research with
great confidence.

Grading System (Tentative schedule) CIVI 435 CIVI 6501

Tutorials/assignments 20% 20%
Presentation (Power points) 30 %
Test No. I (May 24) 40 % 20%
Test No. II (June 14) 40 %
Research paper (June 14) 30%
100% 100%

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 Course Outline

1 - Introduction

2 - Site Investigation

a. Site investigation program.

b. Field and Laboratory Tests.
c. Legal and liability of Geotechnical Engineers

3 - Shallow Foundations
a. Requirements for satisfactory design (bearing capacity /Settlement)
b. Types & Depth of foundations.
c. Theories of ultimate bearing capacity of footings on homogeneous soil.

i. Bearing Capacity theories –Limit equilibrium method

ii. Bearing Capacity theories –field testing
iii. Bearing Capacity theories –Limit state design

d. Foundations under eccentric or inclined loads.

e. Foundations on layered soil.
f. Settlement of foundations.
g. Raft foundations.
h. Structural Tolerance to Differential Settlement.

4 - Deep Foundations
a. Bearing capacity and settlement of single vertical piles.
b. Group action of piles.
c. Pile group under eccentric and inclined load.
d. Laterally loaded piles.
e. Piles in stratified soil.
f. Pile dynamic analyses.
g. Negative skin friction and drag-force.
h. Caissons and piers
i. Sheet piles.
j. Shoring and excavations.

5 - Foundations subjected to uplifting loads

a. Shallow foundations
b. Single/group of piles

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6- Foundations in difficult soils

a. Sensitive clay,
b. Collapsible soil
c. Swelling soil

Field and laboratory tests to identify difficult soils

Difficult soils in Shallow and deep foundations

7- Machine Foundations

8- Foundation Inspection & Monitoring

9- Underpinning

10- Case Histories

11-Latest Trends in Foundation Engineering

Suggested References
"Foundation Design" Cernica, (Wiley)
"Foundation Design" Coduto, (Prentice Hall)
"Foundation Analysis and Design" Bowles, (McGraw-Hill)
"Foundation Engineering" Peck, Hanson, and Thornburn, (Wiley)
"Foundation Design and Construction" Tomlinson (Pitman).
"Foundation Engineering" Leonards, (McGraw-Hill)
"Principles of Foundation Engineering" Das, (ITP)
"Foundation Engineering Handbook," Winterkorn, Fang.
"Foundation Engineering for Difficult Subsoil Conditions" Zeevaert, (Van Nostrand)
"Pile Design and Construction Practice," Tomlinson.
"Pile Foundation Analysis and Designs," Poulos and Davis (John Wiley).
“The pressuremeter and Foundation Engineering” Baguelin et al. (Trans Tech
Publication”
“The Canadian Foundation Engineering Manual”