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Department of Civil EngineeringcoretheorySem 3

APPLIED SOIL ENGINEERING

CIE 3122

Syllabus

  • 01Soil Exploration
  • 02Earth pressure at rest, active and passive conditions
  • 03Stability of slopes - Finite and infinite slopes
  • 04Bearing capacity of shallow footings
  • 05Pile foundations
  • 06Pile driving
  • 07Load carrying capacity of a single pile using static formula
  • 08Group action and Negative skin friction
  • 09Settlement of pile foundations
  • 10Under-reamed piles and bored compaction piles

References

  • Bowels J.E, Foundation Analysis and Design, (4e), McGraw Hills Book Company, 1998.
  • Punmia B.C, Jain AK and Jain AK, Soil Mechanics and Foundations, (17e), Laxmi Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2017
  • Arora K.R, Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, (7e), Standard, Publishers and Distributors 2011.
  • Murthy V.N.S, A Text Book of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, CBS Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 2008.
  • Gopal Ranjan and Rao A.S.R, Basic and Applied Soil Mechanics, New Age International Pvt. Limited, 2016.
  • IS 6403: 1981 (Reaffirmed 2002) Code Of Practice For Determination of Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundations
  • IS: 2911 - 1980 (Reaffirmed 2000) Code Of Practice For Design And Construction of Pile Foundations
  • IS:2131 - 1981 (Reaffirmed 1997) Method for Standard Penetration Test for Soils
Credits Structure
2Lecture
1Tutorial
0Practical
3Total