What Will Learn?

• Course Aims

  The aim of this course is to provide students with the needed knowledge and skills regard the following requirements: • Quality Control of Field Compaction. • Formulation of the seepage pattern of water flow of different geotechnical structures. In addition to determination of uplift pressure and critical hydraulic gradient. • Evaluation of the stability of infinite and finite slopes • Checking stability of gravity Retaining Walls • Calculation of bearing capacity of shallow foundation under different types of loads and based on shear strength criteria and settlement criteria.

Requirements

CES261s

Description

• English Description
  
  Vertical stress distribution within the soil mass: stresses under point, line loads, and distributed load. Compressibility and consolidation: soil compression, theory of consolidation, and estimation of elastic settlement and consolidation settlement. Shear strength of soil: definitions, Mohr- Coulomb’s shear strength criteria, types of shear strength tests. Subsurface exploration and sampling: methods of boring and basic field tests. Bearing capacity: modes of failure, shear strength parameters, bearing capacity loads equation, eccentric loads, and inclined loads, and bearing capacity based on settlement criteria.
• Arabic Description
  
  Vertical stress distribution within the soil mass: stresses under point, line loads, and distributed load. Compressibility and consolidation: soil compression, theory of consolidation, and estimation of elastic settlement and consolidation settlement. Shear strength of soil: definitions, Mohr- Coulomb’s shear strength criteria, types of shear strength tests. Subsurface exploration and sampling: methods of boring and basic field tests. Bearing capacity: modes of failure, shear strength parameters, bearing capacity loads equation, eccentric loads, and inclined loads, and bearing capacity based on settlement criteria.