CEN-306: Foundation Engg

Lecture-01; Introduction
Mahendra Singh
Department of Civil Engineering
IIT Roorkee, Roorkee- 247667, India
mahendra.singh@ce.iitr.ac.in; msingh.civil@gmail.com

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CEN-306

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Books

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Introduction
• Requirement of Foundations
• Requirement of
•Buildings,Foundations
Monuments
• Bridges • Buildings,
• Dams Monuments
• Bridges
• Dams
Civil Engineering Structures: Founded on SOIL or ROCK

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Foundation soil/rock should be Competent

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Landslides:

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Most Important Engineering Attributes of Soils
• Strength:
• Should not yield/fail under the kind of
load being applied
• Deformability:
• Deformations/ settlement of soil/
structure under the applied loads
should be within limits.
• Permeability
• In many civil Engineering applications:
water seeping through soil has high
influence on engineering response of
soil and structure
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Ancient times
• Tomb construction Monuments

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Modern times: Dam, Pavement, Foundation

Since, the soil is in direct contact with the

structure, it acts as a medium of load transfer
and hence for any analysis of forces acting on
such structure, one has to consider the
aspect of stress distribution in soil.

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Foundations experience vibrations, earthquake and blast loading

It is important to understand the

behavior of soil under vibratory loads
when soil acts as a foundation in such
cases.

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Purpose of Foundation
To transfer the load of superstructure to the subsoil
safely:
• Without exceeding the load carrying capacity of the
subsoil strata (Strength Characteristics)

• Without causing settlements which exceed the

permissible limits (Deformation Characteristics)
 Aims and Objectives of Course
• To determine the soil design parameters:
• To assess the load carrying capacity of the subsoil strata at a given
particular site subject to given loading conditions;
• To compute the settlements likely to occur due the construction of
the structure
• To suggest the type of foundation suitable at a given site;
• Individual footing, Raft, Pile or Well
• In addition: Retaining walls and Slope stability problems will also be
covered.

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