Advanced Foundation Engineering
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The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Foundation Engineering (subject code ME02076021) as prescribed for GE · Semester 2 divides the course into 6 units, covering 22 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 (ME02076021)Unit 1 Bearing Capacity & Settlement Computations
- Developments - need of Foundation Engineering
- selection of type of foundation
- Bearing capacity of shallow foundations and its relevant theories including IS method - Homogeneous - Layered soils - Soft and Hard Rocks - Evaluation of bearing capacity from in-situ tests
- settlement computations: immediate-consolidation settlement-layered soil and rocks-construction period correction-evaluation from in-situ tests - code recommendations
Unit 2 Interactive Analysis and Design of Foundations
- Analysis of foundation - Contact pressure under footings
- – contact pressure distribution-factors influencing contact pressure distribution beneath rigid and flexible footings
- individual - strip - combined footings and mat foundations conventional - elastic approach - soil structure interaction principles
Unit 3 Design of Raft foundations- types of rafts, stability and rigidity of the soil
- structure system
- allowable soil pressures for rafts in cohesionless and cohesive soils
- Design of raft by rigid beam method and Winkler method
- Solution based on elastic half space and based on elastic theory
Unit 4 Pile Classifications & Load Transfer Principle
- Necessity of pile foundation – classification of piles – Factors governing choice of type of pile – Load transfer mechanism – Allowable load of piles and pile groups – Static and dynamic methods – for cohesive and cohesionless soil – negative skin friction – group efficiency – pile driving formulae - limitation – Wave equation application – Interpretation of field test and pile load test results – Settlement of piles and pile group - codal provisions
Unit 5 Foundations on Expansive Soils and Collapsible soils
- The nature
- origin and occurrence
- testing and evaluating expansive soils
- typical structural distress patterns and preventive design & construction measures
Unit 6 Introduction to Special Foundations
- Foundations for offshore structures
- Well foundations
- buried structures
- Earthquake prone structures
- Foundations on problematic soils like expansive soils
- Polluted soils etc
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