Soil-Structure Interaction
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The official GTU curriculum for Soil-Structure Interaction (subject code ME02000291) as prescribed for GE · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 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 (ME02000291)Unit 1 Introduction to SSI
- Introduction to SSI, Importance of SSI, Applications and Examples of SSI for geotechnical engineer
- Effect of structure roughness / smoothness on soil behaviour
Unit 2 SSI problems
- General soil-structure interaction problems- Shallow foundation
- Sheet piles
- Mat/Raft foundation
- pile raft foundation
- Contact pressure and soil-structure interaction for shallow foundation
- Fixed/ Flexible base
- Differential foundation settlement for high rise buildings
- Pressure settlement prediction from constitutive laws
Unit 3 SSI Models
- Elastic continuum
- Winkler’s model
- Multi parameter models
- Hybrid models
- Codal provisions
- discrete models and finite element models
Unit 4 Seismic Soil-Structure Interaction - Dynamic response of soil,
- straincompatibility, and damping characteristics of soil-structure
- Machine foundation - soil interaction
- Shake-table tests
- SSI in time domain (dynamic stiffness and Green’s functions)
Unit 5 Soil-Pile Behaviour
- axial and laterally loaded piles
- load- displacement behaviour
- Modified Ramberg Osgood Model
- pile group
- interaction effect in pile group
- soil-pile modelling in FEM, Elastic continuum and elasto-plastic analysis of piles and pile groups
- Non- linear load-deflection response
- Pile-raft system
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