NPTEL Syllabus

Advance GeotechnologicalEngineering - Web course

COURSE OUTLINEThis course covers lessons on Soil Aggregate,Permeability andseepage,Stresses in soil mass,Pore water pressure and shearstrength,consolidation & Evaluation of soil settlement.

COURSE DETAILS.No Lecture Name

1 Introduction2 Clay Minerals3 Consistency of cohesive soil &clasiification 4 Effective stress 5 Permeability and seepage 6 Effective Coefficient of Permeability for StratifiedSoils 7 Determination of Coefficient of Permeability in theField 8 Seepage 9 Numerical Analysis of Seepage 10 Plotting of Phreatic Line for Seepage through EarthDams 11 Two dimensional problems 12 Stresses due to a Horizontal & vertical Line Load onthe Surface of a Semi-infinite Mass 13 Uniform Vertical & Horizontal Loading on an InfiniteStrip on the Surface of a Semi-infinite Mass14 Linearly Increasing Vertical Loading on an InfiniteStrip15 Three dimensional problems 16 Stresses below a Circularly Loaded (Vertical)Flexible Area 17 Mohr-coulomb failure criteria 18 Shearing strength of granular soils 19 Axial compression,Axial extension & critical voidratio 20 Curvature of the Failure Envelope21 Shearing strength of cohesive soils22 Unconfined Compression Test23 Effect of Temperature on Shear Strength of Clay24 Unique Effective Stress Failure Envelope25 Undrained Shear Strength of Anisotropic Clay

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Coordinators:Dr. Nihar Ranjan PatraDepartment of CivilEngineeringIIT Kanpur

26 Hvorslev's Parameters27 Fundamentals of Consolidation28 Numerical Solution for One-DimensionalConsolidation29 Preconsolidation pressure30 Calculation of coefficient of consolidation fromlaboratory test results31 Secondary Consolidation32 Constant-Gradient Consolidating Test33 Consolidation by sand drains34 Effect of Smear Zone on Radial Consolidation &Numerical Solution for Radial Drainage35 primary consolidation settlement36 Settlement of rigid footings37 Settlement Prediction in Sand by EmpiricalCorrelation

38One-Dimensional Consolidation,Skempton-BjerrumModification for Calculation of ConsolidationSettlement

39 Secondary consolidation settlement40 Stress-path method of settlement calculation

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