Foundation Engineering

BTech III Year II Sem II Mid Examinations

Part-A
1. What is earth pressure at rest?
2. What are the different types of retaining walls?
3. Define dynamic formulae of Danish.
4. What is ultimate bearing capacity
5. Define the net and gross bearing capacity.
6. State assumptions in Terzaghi bearing capacity theory
7. How piles are classified based on method of installation
8. Define negative skin friction
9. What is active earth pressure
10. What is passive earth pressure

Part-B
1. a) State the assumptions in Rankine’s theory. Derive an expression for Active and Passive
pressure.

b) Discuss the principles of the design of retaining walls.

or
2. Explain in detail about the culmann’s graphical method for finding active pressure with a
neat sketch.
3. Determine the ultimate bearing capacity of a strip footing, 1.5m wide, with its base at a
depth of 1m, resting on a dry sand stratum. Take ᵞ = 17kN/m3 ; ф = 38◦ ; use IS code method .
for Nq = 48.9 and Nᵞ = 56.2

Or
4. Explain in brief about the Plate load test for determining the bearing capacity of foundation
and its limitations?
5. Summarize the following
(i) General Shear failure
(ii) Local shear failure
(iii)Punching shear failure
or
6. Write about the following methods of bearing capacity determination

(i) Terzhagi method

(ii) Meyerhoff method

(iii) IS Code Method

(iv) Skempton method
7. A 16 pile group has to be arranged in the form of a square in soft clay with uniform spacing.
Neglecting end bearing, determine the optimum value of the spacing of the piles in terms of
the pile assuming a shear mobilization factor of 0.6

Or

8. Determine the group capacity of 15 piles arranged in 3 rows of diameter 300 mm. If the piles
are driven 8 m in to clay with cohesion 25 kN/m2 . Take spacing of piles as 0.8 m. (ii) Discuss
the method of obtaining ultimate load and also allowable load on a single pile from pile load
test.
9. Explain for what factor of safeties retaining wall is designed

Or

10. How do you finalize the choice of foundations to be used