Advanced Foundation Engineering
- An introduction to site investigation, the methods of soil exploring, soil boring
- Insitu tests and the application of the obtained results
- Types of piles, the construction methods, bearing capacity and settlement of single piles
- Negative skin friction, Piles subjected to tension load
- Piles subjected to lateral load
- Introducing pile groups, bearing capacity and settlement of pile groups
- Pile group settlement considering the interaction of piles, negative skin friction and p-y curves in groups
- Analysis of piled- raft system
- Static and dynamic tests of piles
- An introduction to the soil lateral pressure, types of retaining structures
- Sheet piles and braced walls
- An introduction to the mechanically stabilized earth walls, mechanism of stress transfer, external stability analysis
- Internal stability analysis, special considerations in design of mechanically stabilized earth walls
- Methods of soil excavation, introducing the soil nailing
- Application of anchors and soldier piles in excavation