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    Advanced Foundation Engineering: Unit - 1

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    The document outlines the units of the course "Advanced Foundation Engineering". Unit 1 discusses shallow foundations and different bearing capacity theories. Unit 2 covers types of shallow foundations and design considerations. Unit 3 is about settlement analysis methods. Unit 4 presents pile foundation classification and load carrying capacity calculations. Unit 5 discusses pile group efficiency and load distribution within a group. The document also outlines units for the course "Pavement Analysis, Design and Evaluation".

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    Advanced Foundation Engineering: Unit - 1

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    The document outlines the units of the course "Advanced Foundation Engineering". Unit 1 discusses shallow foundations and different bearing capacity theories. Unit 2 covers types of shallow foundations and design considerations. Unit 3 is about settlement analysis methods. Unit 4 presents pile foundation classification and load carrying capacity calculations. Unit 5 discusses pile group efficiency and load distribution within a group. The document also outlines units for the course "Pavement Analysis, Design and Evaluation".

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    The document outlines the units of the course "Advanced Foundation Engineering". Unit 1 discusses shallow foundations and different bearing capacity theories. Unit 2 covers types of shallow foundations and design considerations. Unit 3 is about settlement analysis methods. Unit 4 presents pile foundation classification and load carrying capacity calculations. Unit 5 discusses pile group efficiency and load distribution within a group. The document also outlines units for the course "Pavement Analysis, Design and Evaluation".

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    Advanced Foundation Engineering: Unit - 1

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    The document outlines the units of the course "Advanced Foundation Engineering". Unit 1 discusses shallow foundations and different bearing capacity theories. Unit 2 covers types of shallow foundations and design considerations. Unit 3 is about settlement analysis methods. Unit 4 presents pile foundation classification and load carrying capacity calculations. Unit 5 discusses pile group efficiency and load distribution within a group. The document also outlines units for the course "Pavement Analysis, Design and Evaluation".

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    ADVANCED FOUNDATION ENGINEERING

    UNIT - 1
    S.NO DESCRIPTION REMARKS
    1 Shallow Foundations
    2 Bearing capacity -
    3 Terzaghi, Meyerhof‟s, Hansen‟s and Vesic‟s
    4 Bearing Capacity Theories –
    5 IS method of Bearing Capacity
    Factors
    6
    Bearing Capacity of
    7 Stratified Soils
    8 Bearing Capacity Based on Penetration Resistances
    Safe Bearing Capacity and
    9
    Allowable Bearing Pressure.

    UNIT - 2
    S.NO DESCRIPTION REMARKS
    1 Types and choice of type
    2 Design Considerations including Location and Depth
    Proportioning
    3
    of Shallow Foundations
    4 Isolated and Combined Footings and Mats
    Design Procedure for
    5
    Mats.
    6 Floating Foundation
    7 Fundamentals of Beams on Elastic Foundations
    Introduction to
    8
    Drilled pier and Caisson Foundations

    UNIT - 3
    S.NO DESCRIPTION REMARKS
    1 Settlement Analysis
    2 Elastic settlement in granular soils
    Meyerhof‟s, De Beer and Marten‟s
    3
    and Schemertmann‟s equations
    4 Elastic settlements of surface and subsurface footing in clays
    Skempton and Bjerrum‟s pseudo three‐ dimensional approach to consolidation
    5
    settlement
    6 Settlement from in‐ situ tests. Tolerable settlements
    UNIT - 4
    S.NO DESCRIPTION REMARKS
    1 Pile Foundation
    2 Classification of Piles‐ Factors influencing ‐ Choice‐
    Load Carrying
    3 Capacity of Single Piles in Clays and Sands Using Static Pile Formulae‐ α ‐ β ‐ and λ
    ‐
    4 Dynamic
    Methods Pile Formulations
    5 Pull‐ out resistance of piles
    6 Meyerhof‟s, Vesic‟s equations and Coyle and Castello correlations
    for piles in sands
    7 Elastic settlement of piles
    8 Pull out Resistance of piles
    9 Negative skin
    friction in piles
    10 Typical field situations - Estimation of downdrag ‐ Neutral point
    Methods
    11
    of minimizing downdrag

    UNIT - 5
    S.NO DESCRIPTION REMARKS
    1 Pile Groups
    2 Efficiency of Pile Groups - Different Formulae
    Load Carrying Capacity of
    3
    Pile Groups in Clays and Sands
    4 Settlement of Pile Groups in Clays and Sands
    Computation
    5
    of Load on each Pile in a Group
    6 Laterally loaded vertical piles
    7 Modulus of subgrade reaction
    Piles in granular soils and
    8
    cohesive soils subjected to lateral loading
    9 Matlock & Reese analysis for piles in sands
    10 Davisson & Gill analysis for piles in clays
    11 Broms‟ Analysis for piles in sands and clays
    Pavement Analysis, Design and Evaluation
    UNIT - 1
    S.NO DESCRIPTION REMARKS
    1 Pavement Types, Wheel Loads and Design Factors
    Definition of Pavement Types, Comparison
    2 of Highway pavements
    3 Wheel Loads
    4 Tyre pressure
    5 Contact pressure
    Design Factors: Traffic
    6 and Loading
    7 Environment
    8 Materials
    9 Failure criteria
    10 Reliability.

    UNIT - 2
    S.NO DESCRIPTION REMARKS
    1 Stresses in Pavements
    2 Layered System Concepts
    3 One Layer System:Boussinesq‟s Theory
    4 Two Layer Theory:Burmister‟s Theory
    5 Three Layer System
    6 Stresses in Rigid Pavements
    7 Relative Stiffness of Slabs
    8 Modulus of Subgrade Reaction
    9 Stresses due to Warping
    Stresses
    10
    due to Friction
    11 Stresses due to Load
    12 IRC Recommendations

    UNIT - 3
    S.NO DESCRIPTION REMARKS
    1 Pavement Design: IRC Method of Flexible Pavement Design
    AASHTO Method of Flexible
    2
    Pavement Design
    3 IRC Method for Rigid Pavements
    4 use of Geosynthatics in pavements
    UNIT - 4
    S.NO DESCRIPTION REMARKS
    1 Pavement Inventories: Serviceability Concepts
    2 Visual Rating
    3 Pavement Serviceability Index
    4 Roughness Measurements
    5 Measurement of Distress Modes Cracking
    6 Rutting
    7 Rebound
    Deflection using Benkleman Beam Deflection Method
    8 Load Man Concept
    9 Skid Resistance
    Measurement

    UNIT - 5
    S.NO DESCRIPTION REMARKS
    1 Pavement Evaluation
    2 Functional Pavement Performance Evaluation
    3 AASHTO Method
    Psycho
    4
    Physical and Psycho Metric Scaling Techniques
    5 Deduct Value Method.
    6 Structural Conditional Evaluation Technique
    7 Benkelman Beam Deflection Method
    Pavement
    8
    Distress Rating Technique
    Design of Overlays by Benkelmen Beam Deflection Methods as per
    9
    IRC – 81 ‐ 1997
    10 pavements on problematic soils

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