Description of the courses – obligatory courses
1st semester
CODE CEB5061
GEOENGINEERING – FOUNDATIONS
Language: English Course: Basic/Advanced
Year (I), semester (1) Level: II Obligatory/Optional
Prerequisits: none Teaching: Traditional/Distance L.
Lecturer: Włodzimierz Brząkała, PhD, DSc, Associate Professor, Jarosław Rybak, PhD
Lecture Tutorials Laboratory Project Seminar
Hours / sem. (h) 30 30
Exam / Course work/T: Test Mark
ECTS 3 2
Workload (h) 60 60
Outcomes: The course enlarges the scope of the graduate course Foundations (Level I) focusing on the pres- entation of selected new geoengineering technologies and corresponding calculation techniques.
Design projects parallel to the lecture complete the contents of the lecture towards geoengineering practice.
The design projects cover an elastic analysis of soil-foundation interaction (foundation beam, pile groups) and limit states of stresses in soils (earth pressure, retaining structures).
Students get the background knowledge to cope with more advanced problems of geoengineering.
Content: Soil-foundation interaction problems in terms of calculation and design of simple deformable foundations as well as stiff constructions (foundation beams and plates resting on elastic subgrade, piles, block foundations). Special attention is paid to foundations exposed to mining influences, surface protection aspects characteristic for mining areas, dynamical excitations of soils and block foundations of machines.
Retaining and embedded constructions are also considered making use of a wide spectrum of earth pressure theories. Types, properties and applications of reinforced soils and soil improvements are discussed. Sup- porting of deep excavations is presented including the application of slurry walls for underground construc- tions, the “Top & Down” method, secant-pile walls, soil anchors, etc. General criteria of safety and stability are defined following the guidelines of the Eurocode EC7: Geotechnical Design. A number of calculation examples are presented as well as relevant case histories, like the Pisa Tower and so on.
Literature:
1. Bond A., Harris A., Decoding Eurocode 7. Taylor & Francis, 2008.
2. Cernica J., Geotechnical engineering: Foundation design. John Wiley & Sons, 1995.
3. Henry J., Foundation engineering, 1990.
4. Lancellotta R., Geotechnical engineering, A.A. Balkema, 1995; Spon Press, 2008.
5. Reese L.C., Isenhower W.M., Wang S.-T., Analysis and design of shallow and deep foundations.
John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
6. Selvadurai A.P.S., Elastic analysis of soil-foundation interaction, Elsevier, 1979.
7. Eurocode EC7 – Geotechnical design.
