Subsurface Investigation And Instrumentation
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The official GTU curriculum for Subsurface Investigation And Instrumentation (subject code ME01076021) as prescribed for GE · Semester 1 divides the course into 2 units, covering 46 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 (ME01076021)Unit 1 Planning of ground investigation program for different types of
- infrastructure projects in various site conditions
- Soil exploration techniques – soil samplers and sampling
- number and disposition of trial pits
- depth of exploration
- sampling disturbances
- labeling and transportation of samples
- sampler design
- influence on properties
- Recording of field data
- Interpretation and analysis of Laboratory & field testing data
- Codal provisions for subsurface investigation
- Safety measures
Unit 2 Methods of site investigation
- Direct methods
- semi-direct methods and indirect methods
- Drilling methods
- Boring in soils and rocks
- methods of stabilizing the bore holes
- measurement of water table
- field record
- Field tests: In-situ shear test
- in-situ permeability test, SPT, DCPT
- in-situ vane shear test
- plate load test
- Geophysical methods: Electrical resistivity and Seismic refraction methods 12 27 3. [a] Pile load tests
- lateral load tests and its codal provisions
- Pile integrity tests. [b] Tests related to machine foundation
- Block vibration test
- Down-hole test and Cross-hole test
- Introduction to Dilatometer Test
- Pressure Meter Test
- Dynamic triaxial test
- pneumatic shear test
- NDT for soils: falling weight deflectometer (FWD)
- spectral analysis of surface wave (SASW) test. 8 15 5
- Instrumentation: Piezometers
- settlement gauges
- (mechanical and electronic)
- pressure transducers
- strain gauges
- earth pressure cells
- load cells
- data logger/data acquisition systems
- analysis of periodic readings / measurements to assess behavior and deviation from expected designed behavior
- case studies
- Modern testing techniques: Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), XRD, EDAX analysis of soil
- Centrifuge testing and modeling
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