JNTU 2007-08 III Year II Sem B.Tech. CE - GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING - I

Posted Date: 26 Dec 2007 Resource Type: Articles/Knowledge Sharing Category: Syllabus

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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
HYDERABAD
III YEAR B.TECH. C.E. II-SEM T P C
4+1* 0 4
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING - I

UNIT – I
INTRODUCTION: Soil formation – soil structure and clay mineralogy – Adsorbed water – Mass- volume relationship – Relative density.

UNIT – II
INDEX PROPERTIES OF SOILS: Grain size analysis – Sieve and Hydrometer methods – consistency limits and indices – I.S. Classification of soils

UNIT –III
PERMEABILITY: Soil water – capillary rise – flow of water through soils – Darcy’s law- permeability – Factors affecting – laboratory determination of coefficient of permeability –Permeability of layered systems.

UNIT -IV
SEEPAGE THROUGH SOILS: Total, neutral and effective stresses –quick sand condition – Seepage through soils – Flownets: Characteristics and Uses.

UNIT – V
STRESS DISTRIBUTION IN SOILS: Boussinesq’s and Wester gaard’s theories for point loads and areas of different shapes – Newmark’s influence chart .

UNIT – VI
COMPACTION: Mechanism of compaction – factors affecting – effects of compaction on soil properties. – Field compaction Equipment - compaction control.

UNIT – VII
CONSOLIDATION : stress history of clay; e-p and e-log p curves – magnitude and rate of 1-D consolidation – Terzaghi’s Theory.

UNIT - VIII
SHEAR STRENGTH OF SOILS : Mohr – Coulomb Failure theories – Types of laboratory strength tests – strength tests based on drainage conditions – Shear strength of sands – Critical Void Ratio – Liquefaction- shear strength of clays.

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TEXT BOOKS:
1 Basic and Applied Soil Mechanics by Gopal Ranjan & ASR Rao, New age International Pvt . Ltd, New Delhi
2. Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engg. By K.R. Arora, Standard Publishers and Distributors, Delhi.
3. Soil Mechanics and Foundation by by B.C.Punmia, Ashok Kumar Jain and Arun Kumar Jain, Laxmi, publications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

REFERENCES:
1. Geotechnical Engineering by C. Venkataramiah, New age International Pvt . Ltd, ( 2002).
2. Soil Mechanics – T.W. Lambe and Whitman, Mc-Graw Hill Publishing Company, Newyork.
3. Geotechnical Engineering by Purushotham Raj
4. Geotechnical Engineering by Manoj Dutta & Gulati S.K – Tata Mc.Grawhill Publishers New Delhi

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