JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Objectives:

• 1. To gain familiarity about different types of foundation.
• 2. To design of shallow foundations and deep foundations.
• 3. To check the stability of Retaining walls
• 4. To design Machine foundations and Special foundations.

Course Outcome

At the end of the course, student will be able to

• 1. Design shallow and deep foundations for different loading conditions
• 2. Check the stability of retaining walls
• 3. Design machine foundations

UNIT - I

Shallow Foundations: Basic requirements of foundation –Types and selection of foundations. Design of reinforced concrete isolated, combined, eccentric, strip, and strap footings used for infrastructure projects

UNIT - II

Raft Foundations: Types of rafts, Design of slab raft foundation and Design of beam and slab raft foundation used for infrastructure projects.

UNIT - III

Pile Foundations: Introduction, design of piles, pile caps and pile- raft foundation.

UNIT - IV

Design of Retaining walls: Stability Analysis and design of gravity, Cantilever retaining walls.

UNIT - V

Machine Foundations: Vibration analysis of machine foundation - Design of foundation for Reciprocating machines and Impact machines - as per l.S. Codes.

REFERENCE:

• 1. Bowles. J.E., “Foundation Analysis and Design”, McGraw Hill Publishing co., New York, 1986.
• 2. Tomlinson. M.J, “Foundation Design and Construction”, Longman, Sixth Edition, New Delhi, 1995.
• 3. Das, B.M., Principles of Foundation Engineering, Design and Construction, Fourth Edition, PWS Publishing, 1999.
• 4. Narayan V. Nayak, Foundation design manual, Dhanpat Rai & Sons, 2006.
• 5. Prakash Shamsher and Puri Vijay K, Foundations for Machines, Analysis and Design” John Wiley and Sons, USA, 1988.
• 6. IS 2911: Part 1: Sec 1: 1979 Code of practice for design and construction of pile foundations: Part 1 Concrete piles, Section 1 Driven cast in-situ concrete piles. R19 M.TECH GEOTECHNICAL ENGG. M.TECH.- I YEAR- II SEMESTER GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING