School of Engineering and Technology, (SET)
 
CE71.51 : Foundation Engineering and Design  3(3-0)
 
Course objectives:

Foundation Engineering is an important component of education and training of Civil Engineers. All superstructures are to be supported on well-designed foundations for their safety and subsequent performance. The course imparts the principles of foundation analysis and design. It also includes judgement in foundation engineering practice and forensic geotechnical engineering.

 
Learning Outcomes:

Design of foundation, design criteria, bearing capacity, shallow foundations, deep foundations, settlement of foundations, earth pressure and retaining structures, deep excavation, stability analysis, foundation of tall buildings, forensic geotechnical engineering.
 
Pre-requisite(s):

CE71.11 Advance Soil Mechanics and Testing 3(2-3)
 
Course Outline:
I.       Principles of Foundation Engineering
1.   Design of foundations
2.   Design criteria: allowable settlement, total factor of safety, partial factors
 
II.      Shallow Foundations
1.   Types of shallow foundation
2.   Limit analysis applied to the bearing capacity
3.   Bearing capacity calculation: bearing capacity factors
4.   Factors affecting bearing capacity: 2D and 3D, depth, load inclination and eccentricity.
5.   Stress in elastic media due to surface loading
6.   Settlement calculation: immediate settlement, consolidation settlement
7.   Settlement predictions using in-situ tests and empirical methods
8.   Case histories
 
III.     Deep Foundation
1.   Classification of deep foundations, types of pile foundation
2.   Load transfer mechanism: friction resistance, pile tip bearing load
3.   Vertical bearing capacity and settlement of piles
4.   Time effects, group action of piles, negative skin friction
5.   Lateral loads on piles, pile testing and pile dynamic analyses
6.   Case histories
 
IV.     Earth Pressures, Retaining Structures and Deep Excavations
1.   Review of earth pressure at rest, active and passive pressures
2.   Earth pressure from surcharge load
3.   Effect of wall deflection on earth pressure-Arching theory
4.   Retaining Wall Design
5.   Sheet walls for deep excavations (Flexible & rigid walls)
                 i.   Cantilever wall
                 ii.   Anchored Bulkhead wall
                iii.   Braced wall and tieback wall
6.   Numerical methods for deep excavations
7.   Ground movement in deep excavations & effects on adjacent structure
 
V.     Slope Stability Problems
1.   Review of
                 i.     Modes of failures (Translational slide and rotational slide)
                 ii.     Methods of analysis (Method of slices)
2.   Factor of safety from numerical analysis (strength reduction method)
3.   Excavated slope problems
4.   Stabilization measures
5.   Embankment dam slope problems (material properties and analysis)
 
VI.     Bored pile foundation
1.   Load carrying capacity
2.   Design aspects
3.   Construction aspects
4.   Foundation of Tall & Complex Buildings
 
VII.   Forensic Engineering

       Emphasis is made on a number of case studies on these topics
 
 
Learning Resources:

Textbook:
Lecture notes provided by the instructors
 
Reference Books:
Abramson, L. W., Lee,T.S.,  Sharma, S. and Boyce, G.M. (1995):
Slope Stability and Stabilization Methods, Wiley & Sons, Inc..
Duncan, J.M. and Wright, S.G. (2005):
Soil Strength and Slope Stability, John Wiley and Sons.
Tomlinson, M.J. (1995):
Foundation Design and Construction. Pitman Books Ltd., London.
Das, B.M. (1999):
Principle of Foundation Engineering, 4th ed, PWS Publishing.
Day, R.W. (1999):
Forenic Geotechnical and Foundation Engineering. McGrawHill
Clemence, S.P. (Ed.) (1986):
Use of in-situ Tests in Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE Special Publication No. 6.
Ou, C. H., (2006):
Deep Excavation- Theory and Practice, Traylor&Francis, London
Teng, W. C. (1976):
Foundation Design, 4th Edition, by, Prentice Hall Inc., 466 p.
Winterkorn, H.F. and Fang, H.Y. (1994):
Foundation Engineering Handbook, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York
Geotechnical Control Office
Review of Design Methods for Excavations, by Geotechnical Control Office, Civil Engineering Service Department, Hong Kong
Puller, M. (1996):
Deep Excavations (a practical manual), by Malcolm Puller, Thomas Telford
NAVFAC (1982)
Foundations and Earth Structures: Design Manual 7.1 and 7.2, Department of Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Virginia, USA.
 
Journals and Magazines:

Geotechnique, Institution of Civil Engineers, London


Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers


Soil and Foundations, Japanese Geotechnical Society


Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Canadian Geotechnical Society
 
 
Teaching and Learning Methods:

N/A
 
Evaluation Scheme:
The final grade will be computer according to the following weight distribution:

Mid-Semester Exam (50%)
Final Exam (50%)

Assignments are compulsory. Closed book exam.
 
Instructor(s):
SECTION NAME
A Dr. Kuo-Chieh Chao