Geotechnical Engineering
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Geotechnical Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Geotechnical Engineering (subject code 3130606) as prescribed for Civil Engineering · Semester 3 divides the course into 3 units, covering 28 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3130606)Unit 1 Type of Soils, Index Properties, Inter-relationships and Soil Characterization
- Types of soil and soil formation
- Geological cycle
- Phase diagrams
- Basic terms
- Functional relationships based on index properties
- Physical characterization of soil-Dry and Wet sieve analysis
- Atterberg’s Indices
- Soil Structures
- Soil Water and its types
- Standard nomenclature & IS Soil Classification
- Problems/Numericals/Codes/Lab and Field Tests
Unit 2 Permeability and Seepage
- Darcy's law and its validity
- Factors affecting permeability
- Laboratory permeability tests
- Permeability of stratified soil masses
- Seepage pressure
- Quick condition
- Flow nets
Unit 3 Compaction & Consolidation of soil
- Differentiate between compaction and consolidation
- Compaction mechanism and proctor tests
- field compactions methods
- factors affecting compaction
- Consolidation mechanism through spring analogy
- fundamental definitions
- Terzaghi’s one dimensional consolidation theory (only formula)
- Time factor
- pre-consolidation pressure
- consolidation 09 Subject Code: 3130606 w.e.f
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