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SYLLABUS FOR M Tech.

, GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
[As per Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) scheme]
SEMESTER III
Subject: Earth and Earth Retaining Structures
Subject Code 20CGT321 IA Marks 40
Number of Lecture Hours/Week 04 Exam Marks 60
Total Number of Lecture Hours 50 Exam Hours 03
CREDITS 04
Course objectives: This course will enable students to
To study the geostatic stresses, shear strength of soils.
To study the static earth pressure for retaining walls, etc.
Teaching
Modules
Hours
Module -1

problem
10 Hours
passive earth pressures, earth pressure calculations for line load and/or uniform strip load
acting on the ground surface.
Module -2
Retaining walls: Types of retaining walls, Failure of retaining walls by sliding, overturning
and bearing. Stability and principles of the design of retaining walls Gravity retaining
10 Hours
walls, cantilever retaining walls, counterfort retaining walls, modes of failure of retaining
walls, drainage from the backfill.
Module -3
Bulk heads: Cantilever sheet pile walls - Types of sheet pile walls, free cantilever sheet pile,
cantilever sheet pile in cohesion less soils and in clay.
10 Hours
Bulk heads: Anchored cantilever sheet pile walls - Anchored sheet pile with free earth
support in cohesionless and cohesive soil. Bulk heads with fixed earth support method.
Module -4
Braced cuts: Introduction, lateral earth pressure on sheeting, different types of sheeting and
10 Hours
bracing systems, design of various components of bracings.
Module -5
Coffer dams and Cellular coffer dams: Introduction, types of coffer dams, design of cellular
coffer dams on rock by Tennes Valley Authority (TVA) method, safety against sliding, 10 Hours
slipping, overturning, vertical shear and stability against bursting.
Course outcomes:
During this course, students will be trained:
To analyze the field problems and encountering various failures due to shear geostatic stress etc.
To design and analyze the retaining structures for earth pressures.
Question paper pattern:
The question paper will have ten questions.
Each full question consists of 20 marks.
There will be 2 full questions (with a maximum of four sub questions) from each module.
Each full question will have sub questions covering all the topics under a module.
The students will have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Text Books:
1. Foundation analysis and design - J E Bowles, McGraw Hill, NY
2. Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice Karl Terzaghi and R B Peck (1967), John Wiley and
Sons, NY
3. Analysis and Design of Foundations and Retaining Structures S Prakash(1979), Sarita
Prakashana, Meerut

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