Course Learning Outcomes
- Calculate stress increase in soil due to construction of a structure, from elastic theory and by approximate methods
- Plan a geotechnical site investigation program including number and depth of boreholes and estimate some of the soil properties from in-situ tests
- Calculate immediate and consolidation settlements in soils
- Determine net foundation pressure and allowable bearing capacity of a soil
- Design a shallow foundation to satisfy factor of safety against bearing capacity and allowable settlement criteria
- Calculate lateral earth pressure using Rankine's theory and evaluate the factor of safety of various earth retaining structures
- Calculate the bearing capacity of pile foundations (single pile and pile group), calculate the settlement of pile groups