Notes for Foundation Engineering - FE by Uma Sankar Panda

Concept of earth pressure, Earth pressure at rest, active and passive earth pressure for both cohesionless and cohesive soils

Rankine’s theory, Coumb’s Wedge theory, Graphical methods: Rebhan’s and Culmann’s graphical solutions, Stability conditions for retaining walls

Gravity Retaining Wall

Definitions, Rankine’s analysis, Types of failures: General and local shear failure, Terzaghi’s Analysis, Brinch-Hansen analysis, Meyerhof’s analysis, Vesics’s bearing capacity equation, Effect of water table on bearing capacity, IS code method for computing bearing capacity

Effect Of Size Of Plane Of Settlement

Types of foundations: Spread footing, combined and strap footing, mat or raft footing, Settlement of footings

Difference between shallow and deep foundations, Types of deep foundations. Pile Foundations: Types of piles, pile driving, load carrying capacity of pilesstatic and dynamic formulae, Pile load test and its limitations, correlation with penetration tests

types, component parts and ideas about the forces acting on a well foundation

Necessity and planning for subsoil exploration

direct (test pits and trenches), indirect (sounding, penetration tests and geophysical methods)

Introduction, problems, defects in rock mass, joints, faults, folds, methods of geophysical prospecting, seismic and electrical method