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CE 411Advance Geotechnical Engineering
January 2012
Instructor: Prof.A.Trivedi
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
FW-3: GF-5, CED, DTU, [email protected]
Lecture hours: Monday 9, Tuesday 11, Thrusday, Friday, 3
Office hours: M 11-12 or by appointment
Approved Syllabus (DU)
Paper Code L T P Cr
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Course scequence
IntroductionFailure Envelopes; MC, HB, Tresca, Van-misses
Special Soils: Sensitive clays, loesses, Bouldery soils,
expansive soils
Geo-technical exploration
Instrumentation
Soil dynamics
Fundamentals of vibrations, vibration of elementary
systems-mass, spring dashpot systems, various degrees of freedom,
Propagation of wave in granular media;
Dynamic properties of geo-materials, laboratory and field tests
for evaluation of dynamic soil properties;
Theories for vibration of foundations on elastic media;
Analysis and design of foundations for hammers, reciprocating
engines and turbo generators; dynamic stiffness of single pile and
pile groups;
Design procedures for foundations with dynamic load and
construction features; elastic
homogeneous half space solutions, lumped parameter
solutions;
Vibration isolation and damping;
Large deformation problems: liquefaction of soils & cyclic
mobility,remidiation.
Deep foundation:
Underground structures
Rock mechanics
Str Design consideration
Desired inclusions
It will look at the science and engineering involved in
evaluating issues related toadvanced applications of Geotechnical
Engineering.
The course will culminate in a team project.
Course Objective: At the conclusion of the course, you should be
able to:
1. Understand how science and engineering are used to evaluate
and predict strengthenvelops.
2. Understand the special soils.3. To relate the geo exploration
with laboratory studies4. Understand simple static and dynamic
analysis and be able to evaluate the large
strain and small strain problems
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5. Understand how engineering is used to minimize the effects of
large strain andsmall strain problems
6. Apply these concepts to instrumentations, deep foundations,
rock mechanics anddesign considerations.
Course Computer Skills:1. Simple spreadsheet analysis and
plotting Microsoft Excel2. Working submission through the
webpage
Textbook: Authors1. Lecture Notes2. Design of Substructures
(1999) by Swami Saran3. Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (1996)
by S.L. Kramer
Additional readings may be intimated over the course of the
semester.
Course Webpage: The course webpage is at Black/ white board.
Your log in is your lastname followed by the last 3 digits of your
student ID. Your password is your student ID
number with no spaces. The course web site will be managed and
used by the students
frequently in the course.
This should be found under my courses.
We will also have a second course website for hosting data
associated with the labs and
Projects; Subject to the organizing by you.
Geotechnical Engineering Laboratories at CED: Visit &
Prepare Report
Coursework: Weekly assignments will be made and should be turned
in at the beginningof class the following week. Assignments should
be neat (stapled, one-sided, etc.) and
complete (include all of your work).
Final Project: The course will have a group project that will be
due at the end of the
semester. Groups will be made of three or four students and will
be assigned to a
geohazard event. Groups and events will be assigned and project
details will be collectedafter the first week. Each group will make
a presentation on November 30
thin class.
Each group will also submit a written report on the geohazard
event. The report will be
due at the end of reading period (Tuesday, March 14, 10am)
Mid semester examination and Quizzes: The course will have
30-minute quizz.
Quiz 1: Feb
Mid Sem: To be announced by CoE
Quiz 2: March-AprilEnd Sem Exam: To be announced by CoE
Grading Policy:Homework & quizzes 10%
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Mid sem 20%
Final exam 70%
Project participation
Late assignment grades will automatically be reduced by 25% and
will not be accepted
after one week from due date. No assignment/ projects will be
accepted after the week.Course Schedule and Assignments (Subject to
change)
Details and Assignments (Subject to change)
Day Topic Reading Assignment (to
be completed beforeclass)
Assignment (due at the
beginning of the next class)
Jan.-Feb Introduction PPT 1: Recent developmentsAn essay
Jan.-Feb Failure Envelopes; Ch. 1
Ch.2-5
2: Soil types
Jan.-Feb MC, HB, JC, Tresca,Van-misses
3:Collecting, plotting anddisplaying data
Jan.-Feb Special Soils: Ashes 4:
Feb. Sensitive clays,loesses, bouldery
soils, expansive soils
Ch. 6-7 5: Lab 2Attribute data
Feb. Instrumentation 6:
Feb. Deep foundation: 1st
Project
Feb. Ch. 8-9 7: Lab 3Creating designs
March. Geo-technical
exploration
8:
March Soil dynamics 2n
Project Meetings
March Machine Foundations 9: Lab 4 - Queries
March Ch. 10-11 10: Analysis and design
March Underground
structures
ArchingTunnels
Conduits
11: Lab 5 Analysis and
design
April Rock mechanics Submission
April Hardening SubmissionApril Softening Submission
April Design consideration Submission
End sem May
5 pmProject Reports
Best wishes: Enjoy reading, writing, participating and utilizing
the course material.
