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Savitribai Phule Pune University, Maharashtra (SPPU), Civil Engineering Semester 4, Geotechnical Engineering Syllabus
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Unit - 1 Introduction And Index Properties
1.1 Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering
1.2 Applications of Geotechnical Engineering to Civil Engineering
1.3 Types of Soil structure
1.4 Major Soil Deposits in India
1.5 Field Identification of Soils
1.6 Introduction to soil exploration
1.7 Objective and Purpose
1.8 Three Phase Soil system WeightVolume relationship
1.9 Index Properties of Soil
1.10 Methods of determination and their significance
1.11 IS and Unified Soil Classification system
Unit - 2 Permeability And Seepage
2.1 Soil Water
2.2 Permeability definition and necessity of its study
2.3 Darcy’s law
2.4 Factors affecting permeability
2.5 Laboratory measurement of permeability
2.6 Field test for determination of permeability
2.7 Permeability of Stratified Soil Deposits
2.8 Seepage and Seepage Pressure
2.9 Quick Sand Phenomenon or Critical Hydraulic gradient
2.10 General flow equation for 2D flow Laplace equation
2.11 Flow net
2.12 Properties of Flow net
2.13 Application of Flow net
2.14 Flow net construction for flow under sheet pile
2.15 Flow net construction for flow under earthen dam
Unit - 3 Compaction And Stress Distribution
3.1 CompactionIntroduction
3.2 Comparison between Compaction and Consolidation
3.3 Compaction test
3.4 Zero Air Void Line
3.5 Factors affecting Compaction
3.6 Effects of Compaction on soil properties
3.7 Field compaction methods
3.8 Compaction equipment for different types of soil
3.9 Placement Water Content
3.10 Field Compaction Control and Use of compaction test results Proctor needle in field compaction control
3.11 Stress Distribution of soil
3.12 Geostatic Stress
3.13 Boussinesq’s theory with assumption for point load and circular load
3.14 Pressure distribution diagram on horizontal and vertical plane
3.15 Pressure Bulb and its significance
3.16 Westergaard’s theory
3.17 Equivalent Point load method
3.18 Approximate stress distribution method
Unit - 4 Shear Strength Of Soil
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Shear Strength an Engineering Property
4.3 Mohr’s Stress Circle
4.4 Mohr Coulomb Failure Theory
4.5 The Effective Stress Principle
4.6 Total Stress Effective Stress and Neutral stressPore water pressure
4.7 Peak and Residual Shear Strength
4.8 Factors affecting Shear strength
4.9 Stress Strain Behaviour of Sand and Clays
4.10 Measurement of Shear Strength
4.11 Different Drainage Condition for shear test
4.12 Sensitivity
4.13 Thixotropy
Unit - 5 Earth Pressure
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Rankine’s State of Plastic Equilibrium in soils
5.3 Active and Passive States due to wall movement
5.4 Earth Pressure at rest
5.5 Rankine’s theory Earth pressure on retaining wall due to submerged backfill
5.6 Backfill with Uniform Surcharge
5.7 Backfill with sloping surface
5.8 Layered backfill
5.9 Coulomb’s Wedge theory
5.10 Rebhann’s graphical method of determination of earth pressure
5.11 Culmann’s graphical method of determination of earth pressure
Unit - 6 Stability Of Slopes
6.1 Stability of Slopes
6.2 Classification of slopes
6.3 Modes of failure of slopes
6.4 Stability of Slopes
6.5 Infinite slopes in Cohesive and Cohesionless soil
6.6 Landslides
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