NPTEL Syllabus
e-Book on Concepts and
Techniques in Geotechnical and
Foundation Engineering - Web
course
COURSE OUTLINE
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This is in the nature of a covering course for students who are
undergoing or have undergone courses in Geotechnical
Engineering and Foundation Engineering, at the
Civil
undergraduate or postgraduate level. It is prepared as a
learning aid in the hands of the student and a teaching aid in
Engineering
the hands of the teacher. Geotechnical and foundation
engineering professionals will also find the material useful in
reinforcing their understanding of the subject they are dealing
with. The course material consists of text, figures (with Pre-requisites:
ANIMATION), audio and video clippings, the latter wherever
necessary and possible. Text and figures will also adopt a
Basic courses in geotechnical
colour scheme to differentiate and highlight the material in the engineering and foundation
order of importance. In short, the course is designed to create engineering
an environment of effective learning of the subject matter on an
e-platform.
Additional Reading:
COURSE DETAIL
1. Kurian, N. P. An
Introduction to Modern
Techniques in
Geotechnical and
Sl. Topic Foundation Engineering,
No. Narosa Publishing
House, New Delhi, Alpha
Science
1 Void ratio porosity: general relationship International, U. K., 2013.
Total and effective stress a theoretical building 2. Kurian, N. P., Shell
block Foundations Geometry,
Analysis, Design and
Construction,
Narosa Publishing
2 Shear strength Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion House, New Delhi, Alpha
Science International,
U.K.,2006.
3 Earth pressure active and passive similarity with
arching - active earth pressure on
Coordinators:
stem of cantilever retaining wall implied
assumption Dr. Nainan P. Kurian
Dr. Nainan P. Kurian
Submerged unit weight combined earth and water Department of Civil
pressures EngineeringIIT Madras
4 Bearing capacity relevance of shear failure
skirted footings
5 Permeability: water table, hydraulic gradient, quick
sand, filters
6 Consolidation short term and long term
performance
Compaction wet and dry densities
7 Foundation design phases geotechnical design
bearing capacity and settlement factors
net loading intensity influence of water table on
geotechnical design
8 Compensated rafts
9 Special piles inclined pile, tapered pile,
underreamed pile, screw pile
Thermal analogy for analysing expansive soils and
foundations interacting with expansive soils
10 Negative skin friction
Pile group action
Piled rafts
11 Soil pressure for structural design in normal and
swelling soils.
Spring bed analogy for soils
Column action soil reaction
12 Soil-structure interaction continuous elastic and
Winkler models
Nonliner Winkler model, continuous Winkler model
Influence of rigidity on differential settlements
13 Conical, spherical and hypar shell foundations
Installation of precast shell foundation by centrifugal
blast compaction
14 Plate bearing test
Standard penetration test
Pile load tests
15 Cantilever footing construction
Simplex pile construction
Underreamed pile construction, half bulb
Cut support by prestressing struts
16 Pile driving by hammer impact, vibration
Driving steel, R.C. sheet piles
Well foundation sinking
17 Drainage by well points lowering of ground water
table
Foundation dewatering
18 Stabilisation of boreholes and trenches by drilling
mud
19 Reinforced earth principle Telescope and Hitex
methods of construction
Back-to-back construction of reinforced earth vs.
continuous strips
Reduction of settlement by reinforced earth
Soil nailing
20 Diaphragm walls construction, trench cutter
Ground anchors construction, uses
21 Bored piles - construction
Bored pile walls secant piles, tangent piles,
intermittent piles
Metro lines construction by the cut and cover
method
22 Gabions for retaining structures
Terramesh and Green Terramesh for slope
stabilisation
23 Retaining wall with relieving shelves
Controlled yielding technique to reduce lateral earth
pressure
24 Vibroflot rotation of eccentric mass
Vibrocompaction
Vibroreplacement, stone columns
25 Soilcrete
Soilfrac
26 Dynamic compaction
27 Sand drains
Vacuum consolidation
28 Pile dynamic testing
29 Pressuremeter testing
Centrifugal testing of geotechnical models
30 Dilatometer testing
Piezocone testing
31 V-piles static installation
Box jacking
32 Sanitary Landfill construction
Bamboo-reinforced soil-cement for rural construction
33 Petronas and Burj Khalifa Towers piled-raft
foundation
Construction of the Suez and Panama Canals
34 Geotechnical intervention in the restoration of the
Leaning Tower of Pisa
35 Prestressed concrete piles splicing
36 Granular anchor piles in expansive soils
37 Multistoreyed structures with basement Top-down
construction
38 R.C. pavement construction
39 Statnamic, Osterberg tests
40 Dilatometer testing
Piezocone testing
41 Cathodic protection of marine structures
42 Beach Management System
General
43 Functions and Scales
44 SI Units
References:
1. Gulhati, S. K. And Datta, M. J. Geotechnical Engineering,
Tata McGraw-Hill
Publ. Co. Ltd., New Delhi, 2005.
2. Venkatramaiah, C. Geotechnical Engineering, (3rd edn.)
New Age International
Publishers, New Delhi, 2006.
3. Kurian, N. P. Design of Foundation Systems Principles
and Practices (3rd edn.)
Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, Alpha Science
International, U.K.,2005.
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