Geosythetics & reinforced Earth
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Geosythetics & reinforced Earth Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Geosythetics & reinforced Earth (subject code 3714313) as prescribed for C(E · Semester 1 divides the course into 6 units, covering 20 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 (3714313)Unit 1 Introduction
- Historical background of reinforced soil
- Principles of reinforced soil through Mohr circle analysis
Unit 2 Different types of geosynthetics
- Types of geosynthetics like geotextiles
- geo- composites and geomambrane
- their manufacturing methods
Unit 3 Testing of Geosynthetics
- Various properties of geosynthetics
- physical properties
- mechanical properties
- hydraulic properties & endurance properties
- Extrapolation of long term strength properties from short term tests
Unit 4 Reinforced Soil retaining walls
- Different types of walls like wrap-around walls
- full-height panel walls and discrete-facing panel walls
- modular block walls Design methods for RE wall
- Construction methods for reinforced soil retaining walls
Unit 5 Reinforced soil slopes
- Basal reinforcement for construction on soft clay soils
- construction of steep slopes with reinforcement layers on competent soils
- Different slope stability analysis methods like planar wedge method
- bi-linear wedge method and circular slip methods
- Erosion control on slopes using geosynthetics
Unit 6 Various Civil Engg Applications of Geosynthetics
- For Foundations: Binquet and Lee's approach for analysis of foundations with reinforcement layers
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