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CE208 Geotechnical Engineering I, April 2018

The document discusses topics related to geotechnical engineering and soil mechanics. It contains questions related to soil properties, permeability, consolidation, shear strength, slope stability, and settlement. The questions would be answered as part of an exam on geotechnical engineering topics.

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CE208 Geotechnical Engineering I, April 2018

The document discusses topics related to geotechnical engineering and soil mechanics. It contains questions related to soil properties, permeability, consolidation, shear strength, slope stability, and settlement. The questions would be answered as part of an exam on geotechnical engineering topics.

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FOURTH SEMESTER B.TECH DEGREE EXAMINA
Course Code: CE208 turHUng
Course Name: GEOTECHMCAL ENGINEERING I (CE)
Max. Marks: 100 Duration: 3 Hours
(Graph sheet may be supplied on request)
PART A
Answer any twofull questions, each cawies 15 marks Marks
1 a) The wet unit weight of a clay sample is 18.8kN/m3 at2}Yowater content. What (5)
is the degree of saturation?
b) An embankment of 103m3 voftmre is to be constructed with a soil having a void (10)
ratio of 0.8 after compaction- There are three borrow pits marked A, B and C
having soils with void ratios of 0.9, 1.5 and 1.8 respectively. The cost of
excavation and transporting the soil is Rs. 25, Rs 0.23 and Rs. 0.18 per m3
respectively. Calculate the volume of soil to be excavated from each pit. Which
borrow pit is most economical?
2 a) What are the index properties of soil? Why are they important? (5)
b) A partially saturated clay weighs 113.4 gm in its natural state and 93.49 in its (10)
dry state. If specific gravify is 2.65, find out the void ratio, porosity, degree of
saturation, ywet, yd and y.ut. Size of the clay is 3.7 cm in dia. and 7.5 cm ht.
3 a) What are the difflerent corrections applied to hydrometer reading? (5)
b) In a hydrometer analysis 50 g of soil was mixed in water to form 1000m1 (10)
uniform soil suspension. The corrected hydrometer reading after a lapse of
60mts from the start of sedimentation was 1.010 and the corresponding :

effective depth was 108 mm. Determine the effective diameter corresponding to
60mts reading and percentage of particles finer than this size. G: 2.7 viscosity
' of water is 0.001 Ns/m2'
PART B
Answer any two full questions, each cawies l5 marks
4 a) Explain the effect of capillariry on effective stress. (5)
b) A bed of sand consists of three horizontal layers of equal thickness. The (10)
magnitude of the coefficient of permeability for both upper and lower layer is
4xl}4ffin/s and for the middle layer, it is 6x10-2mm/s. what is the ratio of the
average permeability of the bed in the horizontal direction to that in vertical
direction.
5 a) List the demerits of direct shear test. (5)
b) The following data refers to a CU test on a normally consolidated clay. (10)
Compute the total stress and eflective shear strength parameters.
Sample no Cell pressure Deviator stress Pore pressure
(kPal (kPa) (kPa)
I 100 130 48
2 300 485 r40
3 500 64s 290
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a) Explain eflective stress principle. (5)


b) A saturated specimen is permanently unCer water. Its water content is 50% and (10)
G:2.72. What is the effective stress at 8 m below the clay surface? How many,'
meters of clay must be removed by dredging to reduce the intergranular
pressure atthatpoint by 25 kla. The water levels remain unchanged.
PART C
Answer any two full questions, each caties 20 marks
a) What are the different types of finite slopes? Give measures for improving the (10)
stability of slopes.
b) Explain Friction circle method of slope stability analysis. (10)
8 a) A 20 m thick isotropic clay stratum overlies an impervious rock. The (10)
coefficient of consolidation is 5x10-2mm2/s. Find the time required for 50% and
907o consolidatiorr The time factor for 50o/o consolidation is 0.2 and for 90%
consolidation is 0.85
b) At a building site soil consist of dense sand upto a depth of 3m, clay from 3m (10)
to 6m depth and stiffimpervious rock below 6m depth. The water table is at lm
below the present grotrnd level. Density of sand is 19.5 kNims above wat€r
table and 20 kN/m3 below it. The natural water content of clay was observed as
60%o, and specific gavity is 2.65. Its tiquid limit was 75%. Estimate the
probable settlement if the ground level is raised by a 2 m thick filI of deme
sand of density lg lo\/m3.
a) A cohesive soil yields a maximum dry density of 18kN/m3 at an optimum (10)
moisture content of L6Yo during a standard proctor test. If the value of G is
2.65,what is the degree of saturation? What is the maximum dry density it can
be firrther compacted to?
b) A 5 m deep cut is made in a soil having Cu:15 kN/m2 and 45:19o, if the slope (10)
is 1:1 what is the factor of safety with respect to cohesion? If the slope is
changed to 1:1.5 FL what will be the change in factor of safety with respect ro
cohesion? The unit weight of soil is 18 kN/m3. The stability numbers for gb:1go
are as follows.
Slope angle 450 300 150
Stabilify 0.108 0.075 0.023
number
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