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This document provides an overview of the 4CE112 Geotechnical Engineering course. The course aims to impart knowledge and skills for soil identification, classification, physical properties, seepage, stress distribution, compaction and consolidation. It covers topics like soil origin and classification, permeability, shear strength, compressibility, consolidation, and compaction. Students will learn to identify, classify soils, and determine their physical properties. The course assessment includes a 3-hour exam with comprehensive theoretical and numerical questions from the entire syllabus.

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4 Ce 112

This document provides an overview of the 4CE112 Geotechnical Engineering course. The course aims to impart knowledge and skills for soil identification, classification, physical properties, seepage, stress distribution, compaction and consolidation. It covers topics like soil origin and classification, permeability, shear strength, compressibility, consolidation, and compaction. Students will learn to identify, classify soils, and determine their physical properties. The course assessment includes a 3-hour exam with comprehensive theoretical and numerical questions from the entire syllabus.

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4CE112 Geotechnical Engineering –I

L-T-P-Cr:3-1-0-4 Prerequisite: A Pass grade or having attended at least 75% of the classes conducted
or at least 60 % attendance and a minimum of 40% marks in the course (s) Earth Sciences / Earth &
Climate Science.

Objective: To impart knowledge and skill for soil identification, classification other physical

Properties of soils, viz seepage, stress distribution, compaction and consolidation. Theory: 1.
Introduction, Origin and Classification of soils, Soil weight volume relationships, Index properties of
soil, Soil Structures and Clay Minerals. 9 Lectures

2. Effective stress principle, Surface Tension and Capillarity, Permeability of soils, Darcy‘s law, tests
for determination of permeability, engineering use of permeability. 4 Lectures

3. Seepage analysis, flow nets, flow through dams, filter design criteria 4 Lectures

4. Effective stress concept in soils, Shear Strength of Soil, Engineering use of shear strength, Direct
and triaxial shear tests, Mohr-Coulomb strength criterion, drained, consolidated undrained and
undrained tests, strength of loose and dense sands, NC and OC soils, dilation, pore pressure and
Skempton‘s pore pressure coefficients. 8 Lectures

5. Compressibility and consolidation 8 Lectures 6. Vertical stress below applied load in soils
(Boussinesq, Westergaard, and graphical solutions), one and two-dimensional cases. Lectures 7.
Compaction characteristics, water content - dry unit weight relationships, OMC, max. Dry unit
weight, field compaction control. 4 Lectures

8. Soil Stabilization 1 Lecture

Text Books: 1. A Text Book of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering - V.N.S. Murthy, Saikripa
Technical Consultants, Bangalore. 2. Geotechnical Engineering - S. K. Gulatiet. al., TMH Publishing
Co. Ltd, New Delhi. 3. Basic and Applied Soil Mechanics - GopalRanjan and A. S. R. Rao, Wiley Eastern
Ltd, New Delhi. 4. Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering - K. R. Arora, Standard Pub. and Dist.,
Delhi. Reference Books: 1. Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice - Terzaghi and Peck, John Wiley
and Sons Inc

New York. 2. Soil Mechanics- Lamb and Whitman, Wiley Eastern Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi. 3.
Fundamentals of Soil Mechanics - Taylor, John Wiley and Sons Inc New York. End Semester
Examination (3 Hrs.): The duration of the Examination will be 3 hrs. The questions will be
comprehensive, i.e. from the entire unit, may have subsections with theory and numerical with
approximately 50% weightage and may / may not have choices. Minimum five questions will have to
be answered. Expected Outcome: The students would be able to identify, classify and determine
physical properties of different types of soils.

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