Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha, Civil Engineering Semester 6, Foundation Engineering Syllabus

RCI6D001 Foundation Engineering

Module:I
Lateral Earth Pressure and Retaining Structures: Concept of earth pressure, Earth pressure at rest,active and passive earth pressure for both cohesionless and cohesive soils, Earth pressure theories:Rankine’s theory, Coulomb’s Wedge theory, Graphical methods: Rebhan’s and Culmann’s graphicalsolutions, Stability conditions for retaining walls.

Module: II 
Bearing Capacity: Definitions, Rankine’s analysis, Types of failures: General and local shear failure,Terzaghi’s Analysis, Brinch-Hansen analysis, Meyerhof’s analysis, Vesics’s bearing capacityequation, Effect of water table on bearing capacity, IS code method for computing bearing capacity, Field Methods: Plate load test and its limitations, Standard penetration test. Shallow Foundations: Types of foundations: Spread footing, combined and strap footing, mat or raftfooting, Settlement of footings.

Module: III 
Deep Foundations: Difference between shallow and deep foundations, Types of deep foundations. Pile Foundations: Types of piles, pile driving, load carrying capacity of piles-static and dynamic formulae, Pile load test and its limitations, correlation with penetration tests, Group action in pilessettlementand efficiency of pile groups in clay, negative skin friction, Under reamed pile foundation. Basics of well foundation - types, component parts and ideas about the forces acting on a well foundation.

Module: IV
Subsoil Exploration: Necessity and planning for subsoil exploration, Methods - direct (test pits and trenches), indirect (sounding, penetration tests and geophysical methods). Soil sampling – types of samples, standard penetration test, static and dynamic cone penetration test, in-situ vane shear test, Rock coring, soil exploration report.

Books:
1. Principles of Foundation Engineering by B. M. Das, Cenage Learning
2. Basic and Applied Soil Mechanics by Gopal Ranjan and A. S. R. Rao, New Age International Publishers
3. Geotechnical Engineering by C. Venkatramiah, New Age International Publishers
4. Geotechnical Engineering by S. K. Gulati & Manoj Gupta, Mc Graw Hill
5. Soil Mechanics and Foundations by B. C. Punmia et al., Laxmi Publications
6. Soil Mechanics & Foundation Engineering by B.N.D. Narasinga Rao, Wiley