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Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructures

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    The aim of this course is the following Analysis and Design of Shallow Foundation: isolated and combined footings, Strip foundation, and Strap beams. Soil stabilization: applying additives to improve soil performance, compaction of different soils; quality control; Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls (MSEW): description of MSEW, construction sequence, design method of MSEW; Deep foundations: Types, Classification of piles, bearing capacity of a single pile, settlement of a single pile, Pile load tests, design of pile caps, and laterally loaded piles. Pile group bearing Capacity analysis under different load conditions, settlement analysis. Micro-piles.

Requirements

CES361s

Description

  • Department
    Structural Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    2
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (20) + tr.Student Activities (40 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 10% , tr.Self_learning 20% , tr.Seminar 10% ) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 1, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    75
  • Equivalent ECTS
    3
  • Egyptian Code of Practice ECP 6th Edition for Soil Mechanics and Foundations Design and Construction
  • 2001 . Housing and Building Research Center Cairo.
  • Bowles J. E. 1997 . Foundation Analysis and Design . 5th Edition. McGraw Hill Company Civil Engineering
  • Series. EKB
  • EPRI EL 680C. Manual on Estimating Soil Properties for Foundation Design . Project 1493 6 Final Report
  • Cornell University Ithaca New York August 1990 .
  • Federal Highway Administration FHWA 1999 . Driven and Drilled Shafts Piles Construction Procedures and
  • Design Methods . Design Manual of U.S. Department of Transportation Publication no. FHWA IF 99 025.
  • German Standard DIN 1054 2005 . - Egyptian Code of Practice ECP 6th Edition for Soil Mechanics and Foundations Design and Construction.