FOUNDATION ENGINEERING

General Module

Course Sheet

Course code:

PTE09F

Academic Year of enrolment:

2021

Year of supply:

2022/2023

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in PROFESSIONAL DEGREE IN BUILDING AND LAND MANAGEMENT

Disciplinary Sector:

Geotechnics

Is part of:

INTEGRATED COURSE OF STRUCTURES

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

AMOROSO SARA

PAGLIAROLI Alessandro

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

Good knowledge of mathematics and physics.

Objectives

The educational objectives of the course are to provide to the students the basic knowledge of soil mechanics, in situ and laboratory investigation and experimentation techniques. Furthermore, the course aims to provide the ability (1) to determine the physical and mechanical parameters of the soil; (2) interpret the main investigations for the design of the main geotechnical works; (3) to use the terminology of the discipline appropriately and to understand a geotechnical report; (4) to acquire the methodological tools to understand geotechnical computations and to address preliminary geotechnical design.

Contents

General principles of soil mechanics (summary); principles of foundation engineering and retaining walls

Extended Syllabus

1 - Principles of Soil Mechanics
Soil composition and soil classification
groundwater conditions, seepage
Stress and deformation, effective stresses
Basic constitutive models for soils
Drained and undrained conditions, consolidation
Stress history and overconsolidation
Stiffness and resistance of fine grained and granular soils
In-situ investigations

2 - On-site and laboratory investigations
Planning of investigations
Edometric test (diagrams and interpretations)
Direct and torsional shear tests (diagrams and interpretations)
Triaxial tests CID, CIU, UU (diagrams and interpretations)
Boreholes and sampling
Main on-site geotechnical tests

3 – Shallow Foundations
General concept, proportioning
Steps of foundation design procedure
Ultimate bearing capacity (Terzaghi’s theory, general equation by Brinch Hansen, special cases)
Evaluation of settlements on clayey and sandy soil deposits
Factor of safety and verification according to National Technical Code NTC2018
Limit State design

4 – Deep Foundations

Types of pile foundations and installation of piles
Single pile capacity (analytical methods and pile load tests)
Ultimate capacity of group piles, group efficiency
Settlements of single and group piles
Verification according to National Technical Code NTC2018

5 – Earth-Retaining structures
Basic retaining structures: massive and cantilever gravity walls, crib walls, concrete and steel sheet pile walls
Lateral earth pressures
Stability analysis of gravity retaining walls (sliding, overturning, bearing capacity failure, global stability)
Stability analysis of cantilever and Anchored sheet-pile walls

Recommended Bibliography

Notes and power point slides provided by the lecturer;
Suggested books for deepening:
Berardi - "Fondamenti di Geotecnica", Città Studi edizioni
Colleselli, Colombo - "Elementi di Geotecnica", Zanichelli
Carlo Viggiani – “Fondazioni”, Hevelius edizioni
Renato Lancellotta, Andrea Ciancimino, Daniele Costanzo, Sebastiano Foti – “Progettazione geotecnica secondo l’Eurocodice 7 e le Norme Tecniche per le Costruzioni”, Hoepli

Teaching Methods

The course includes lectures and classroom exercises. The exercises are aimed at clarifying, through application examples, the topics developed in class. The goal is to allow to the student to acquire a familiarity with the results of in situ and laboratory tests, an interpretative ability of the same, an attitude to address the procedures for geotechnical design of main foundation and retaining structures.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The exam provides for the development of a written exam followed, in case of passing, by an oral exam. The written examneeds the solution of an exercise and of one open question, regarding the full exam program. For each exercise and for the open question, the committee evaluates the accuracy, completeness and organization of the development.
The passing of the written exam allows the access to the oral exam. In case of passing of the written exam, the oral exam must be performed necessarily within the same exam round. The questions of the oral exam require to illustrate orally, with the use of a support (paper or blackboard), arguments regarding the full exam program. For each question, the committee evaluates the accuracy, completeness and organization of the explanation, and also the detail and eventually the autonomy of study, the clarity of presentation and the property of language.
The exam score is expressed with a grade out of thirty.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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