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Assignment 1 (Internal Stresses)

The document contains 7 questions as part of an assignment on internal stresses for a civil engineering course. The questions involve calculating effective stresses, neutral stresses, and total stresses at various points within layered soil formations, and determining the depth to which an excavation can be safely carried out without causing instability due to uplifted groundwater. One question involves drawing the effective stress distribution along a line within the soil profile.

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Assignment 1 (Internal Stresses)

The document contains 7 questions as part of an assignment on internal stresses for a civil engineering course. The questions involve calculating effective stresses, neutral stresses, and total stresses at various points within layered soil formations, and determining the depth to which an excavation can be safely carried out without causing instability due to uplifted groundwater. One question involves drawing the effective stress distribution along a line within the soil profile.

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Delta Higher Institute for Foundation (1)

Engineering & Technology Level 3


Civil Engineering Department 2021/2022

Assignment 1 (Internal Stresses)

1- Calculate the total, neutral and effective stresses at the center line of the shown clay layer.
Calculate the effective stress after application of a surcharge of 2.2 t/m2.

2- For the shown soil formation, calculate (D) such that the effective stress at the center line
of the remaining part of the clay layer after excavation is 25 % of that before excavation.

3- It is required to excavate a trench in the shown soil formation. Find the depth to which the
excavation can be safely carried out without causing instability due to the uplift of the
groundwater. Find the lowered groundwater depth, if the excavation is to be extended to 7 m.

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4- Find the overburden effective stress at the center line of the shown clay layer. Find
the change of this stress due to lowering of the G.W.T. from the shown position to
the top of the clay layer. No allowance for capillary rise is required.

5- For the shown soil formation, calculate the effective stress at points a,b, c, d and
e. Draw the effective stress distribution on the line a-e.

7- For the shown soil formation, find the effective stresses at points A and B. The dry density
of sand is 1.5 t/m3 and its specific gravity is 2.65. Take capillary rise = 0.5 m. Assume
constant void ratio.

Prepared by. DR / Mahmoud mahdy

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