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1. A braced excavation is being made in sandy soil with a water table at 4m. The number of pumps needed to lower the water table to 1m below the excavation for foundation construction is being determined. Each pump has a discharge capacity of 15,000 liters/hour. 2. A plate load test was conducted and bearing capacity calculations are required for a 3m x 3m square footing based on the test results. 3. The depth of penetration required for a cantilever sheet pile wall retaining 5.5m of cohesionless soil is being calculated along with the earth pressure diagram.

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Foundation Engineering Exam Guide

1. A braced excavation is being made in sandy soil with a water table at 4m. The number of pumps needed to lower the water table to 1m below the excavation for foundation construction is being determined. Each pump has a discharge capacity of 15,000 liters/hour. 2. A plate load test was conducted and bearing capacity calculations are required for a 3m x 3m square footing based on the test results. 3. The depth of penetration required for a cantilever sheet pile wall retaining 5.5m of cohesionless soil is being calculated along with the earth pressure diagram.

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1.

A 10 m deep braced excavation with 30 m X 40 m plan dimensions is to be


made in a sandy soil with coefficient of hydraulic conductivity as 2x10-2
cm/sec. The sandy soil layer is followed by hard rock at 20 m depth and
ground water table is located at 4 m depth below ground level. Determine the
number of pumps required to bring the ground water table down to 1 m below
the excavation level for construction of foundation system. Consider that for
the well point dewatering system, discharge capacity of each pump is 15000
lt.hour.

2. A plate load test was conducted at the soil surface on a 30 cm X 30 cm square


plate. The results obtained are as follows,

Load (kg)
Settlement (mm)

500
1.25

1000
2.50

1500
3.75

2000
5.00

2500
7.50

3000
15.00

Compute the following for a square footing of size 3 m X 3 m with a factor of


safety3.0,
(a) Allowable bearing capacity if the deposit is deep sandy strata.
(b) Allowable bearing capacity if the deposit is deep clayey strata.
(c) Expected settlements with allowable bearing capacities from (a) and (b).

3. A cantilever sheet pile wall is required to be designed to retain 5.5 m deep


cohesionless soil strata with unit weight = 17 kN/m3 and friction angle =
300. Determine the total depth of penetration required for complete anchorage
and draw the net earth pressure diagram for the full height of the sheet pile
wall.
4. A closed end tapered pile of 1.0 m base diameter with 10 taper angle has been
driven into dense sand with uniform submerged weight of 11 kN/m3. The
angle of shearing resistance of sand decreases from 400 to 350 at 20 m depth.
Calculate the ultimate capacity of pile of 20 m length using IS code method.

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5. For cyclic pile load test on a 300 mm diameter pile, the observed field test data
is mentioned as follows,

Load (tons)
Total settlement (mm)
Net settlement (mm)

5.0
2.5
0.5

10.0
4.0
1.25

20.0
9.5
3.75

30.0
16.5
8.0

40.0
27.0
14.0

50.0
40.5
21.0

60.0
61.0
31.0

Calculate the allowable load for the pile using IS: 2911 (Part-IV)
6. A group of 36 piles are arranged in a square grid fashion. Diameter of each
pile is 600 mm and the c/c distance of piles is 2.4 m and length of each pile is
15 m. The entire pile-raft/cap is placed at 3 m below ground level. Soil is stiff
clay with unit cohesion = 105 kN/m2 from surface and then to 13 m below
ground surface and then unit cohesion = 145 kN/m2 from 13 m to 28 m below
ground level which is followed by a hard rock strata. If working load on the
whole group is 21000 kN, compute the factor of safety of the system.
Calculate the consolidation settlement of the group. Given, = 0.4 and mv =
8x10-5 m2/kN.

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