Aait, Civil Engineering Department, Geotechnical Engineering - Courseoutline
Aait, Civil Engineering Department, Geotechnical Engineering - Courseoutline
I. Course Content
1. Shallow foundations (5)
1.1.Plastic Zone at the edge of foundations
1.2.Bearing capacity
Conventional calculations for uniform soils
Conventional calculations for non-uniform soils
1.3.Design
Footing (review)
Beams
Mats
2. Deep Foundations (5)
2.1.Review
2.2.Pile capacity
2.3. Pile Spacing and Group Action
2.4.Negative Skin Friction
2.5.Pile Caps
2.6.Batter Piles
2.7.Laterally Loaded Piles
2.8.Design of drilled Piers and Caisons
2.9.Piled Raft Foundation
3. Foundation on Expansive Soils (2)
3.1.Background
3.2.Methods of Preventing Damages
4. Machine Foundations (4)
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4.1.Block Foundations
4.2.Foundation on Piles
4.3.Framed Foundations
Bowles, J.E
McGraw-Hill, 1996
Das, B.M.
McGraw-Hill, 1996
Das, B.M.
Brooks/Cole, 1993
Hetenyi, M.
Srinivasulu, P.
Teferra, A.
Aau-Press, 2008
7. Soil Mechanics
AAU-Press,1999