Description
This Course is offered to all 9th semester Majors
This first half of this course aims at providing the civil engineering students with the fundamentals of deep foundations and their applications. The foundation part of the course includes stress-strain relations within a soil mass, soil’s compliance and the selection and structural design of a suitable piled-foundation (driven piles, and drilled/bored piles). Design-related topics such as pile group effects, lateral pile capacity, construction of piles, and analysis of pile behavior using wave equation and dynamic monitoring methods, are addressed. The second half of the course provides the students with a broader overview on selected advanced topics and practices in geotechnical engineering. This part of the course have a more specialized nature, yet it is meant to briefly touch upon these advanced topics that could be cover later in more detail in separate courses. The topics addressed include: critical state soil mechanics, dewatering, soil improvement, interpretation of site investigations, chemistry and micro scale of fine-grained soils. This part of the course is tailored to complement the fundamental understanding of soil behavior from the microstructure standpoint and concurrently provide parallel real-life applications.