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General Principles of Foundations
Function of foundations. General design procedure. Causes of settlement. Undrained and drained cases. Immediate settlement and consolidation settlement. Total and differential settlements
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Bearing Capacity of Soils
Definitions of bearing capacity and presumed values. Empirical design approaches. Bearing capacity factors for granular and cohesive soils. Plate bearing, standard penetration and cone penetration tests and correlations for design purposes
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Shallow Foundations
Types of shallow foundations. Allowable bearing pressures. Design approaches
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Piled Foundations
General descriptions. Design of piles and pile groups by empirical methods and in-situ test methods. Pile caps. Test loading of piles
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Foundations in Special Conditions
Foundations on fill and rock. Cavities, subsidence and water movement
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| Recommended Book Resources |
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- Braja M. Das and Nagaratnam Sivakugan 2019, Principles of Foundation Engineering, 9th Ed. Ed., Cengage [ISBN: 9781337705035]
- Michael J Tomlinson and John Woodward 2014, Pile Design and Construction Practice, 6th Ed. Ed., Taylor & Francis (CRC Press) London [ISBN: 9781466592636]
- M.J. Tomlinson 2001, Foundation Design and Construction, 7th Ed. Ed., Pearson London [ISBN: 9780130311801]
- R Whitlow 2000, Basic Soil Mechanics, 4th Ed. Ed., Prentice Hall London [ISBN: 9780582381094]
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- Ruwan Rajapakse 2016, Pile Design and Construction Rules of Thumb, 2nd Ed. Ed., Butterworth-Heinemann Elsevier [ISBN: 9780128042021]
- NSAI 2010, I.S. EN 1997-2:2007 Geotechnical design. Ground investigation and testing, NSAI [ISBN: 9780580718724]
- NSAI 2009, I.S. EN 1997-1:2005 Geotechnical design. General rules, NSAI [ISBN: 9780580671067]
- Andrew Bond 2008, Decoding Eurocode 7, 1st Ed. Ed., Taylor and Francis (CRC Press) London [ISBN: 9780415409483]
- Trevor Orr 2007, Geotechnical Design to Eurocode 7, 2nd Ed. Ed., Springer [ISBN: 9781447108030]
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