GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING FUNDAMENTALS (E4241)
2022

1:10-3:40 pm, Monday, Mudd 327

Note: schedules shown in grey color are tentative and subjected to change

Date

#

 

Note

9/12

1

INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering

ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OF SOILS (review)
1. Phase Diagram
2. Basic Definitions
3. Index Properties
4. Effective Stress
5. Shear Strength and Failure Criteria (Direct Shear, Triaxial)

Assignment 1

9/19

2

BEARING CAPACITY OF SHALLOW FOUNDATION/FOOTING

1. Introduction

2.1 Terzaghi's Equation
2.2 Meyerhof's Equation

2.3 Other Issues (eccentricity, ...)

 

 

9/26

3

5. Shear Strength and Failure Criteria (Triaxial)
SETTLEMENT OF SHALLOW FOUNDATION
1. Introduction
2. Elastic Settlement due to Surface Loading (Point Loading, Area Loading)
3. Stress Increment
3.1 Stress increment due to Surface Loading

4.1 One-Dimensional Consolidation Theory
4.2 e-log p curve
4.3 Consolidation Settlement

Assignment 2

10/3

4

5 Methods to Determine Stress Increment

(Boussinesq solution, Newmark, 2:1 method)

BEARING CAPACITY OF PILE FOUNDATION
1. Introduction
2. End Bearing Capacity

 

10/10

5

2.1 Meyerhof's method

2.2 Vesic's method
2.3 Janbu's method

3. Shaft Frictional Resistance
3.1 Sand
3.2 Clay

lambda, alpha, beta methods

4. Energy Pile

(continue, Lecture 7)

Assignment 3

10/17

6

EARTH PRESSURE THEORIES
1. Introduction

2. Coulomb Theory (and Mueller-Breslau)

(continue, Lecture 9)

 

10/24

7

SETTLEMENT OF PILE FOUNDATION
1. Elastic Solution

2. Pile Loading Test
3. Pile Group

4. Consolidation Settlement of Pile Group
5. Negative Skin Friction

 

10/31

8

Mid-term

 

11/7

 

Academic Holiday

 

11/14

9

3. Rankine Theory (and Rankine-Bell)

RETAINING WALLS
1. Introduction
2. Overturning

3. Direct Sliding

 

11/21

10

4. Bearing Capacity
5. Design Example

SHEET PILE WALLS
1. Introduction

2. Cantilever Sheet Pile Wall
2.1 Sand over clay layer

Assignment 4

11/28

11

2.2 Sand over sand layer

3. Anchored Sheet Pile Wall

BRACED EXCAVATION
1. Introduction
2. Pressure Envelopes
3. Strut Force
4. Design Example-Sand
4. Design Example-clay
5. Heaving and Piping

 

12/5

12

Slope Stability
1. Infinite Slope
2. Francais-Culmann Analysis
3. Circular Failure - Stability Number

 

12/12
(last day of class)

13

REINFORCED SOIL RETAINING WALLS
1. Introduction
2. Design
2.1 Design parameters
2.2 Failure Modes
2.3 Design Strength
3. Tieback Analysis/Internal Stability Analysis
3.1 Vertical Spacing
3.2 Required Length
3.3 Anchorage Length
3.4 Design Example
4. External Stability
4.1 Direct Sliding
4.2 Overturning
4.3 Bearing capacity
Summary

 

 

 

 

 

12/19

 

Final Presentation

 

 

 

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