Special Methods of Foundation Engineering

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Department of Geotechnics

Synopsis:

Advanced design approaches for selected types of footings, design based on soil - structure interaction. Monitoring in foundation engineering. Eurocode 7. Faults and case histories in foundation engineering.

Requirements:

135SOME Soil Mechanics, 135FOU1 Foundations

Syllabus of lectures:

Introduction, design considerations of selected structures, computer codes

Design of earth cut for road / railway, construction and loading stages

Monitoring of selected structures, preconditions, design of instrumentation

Piles I. - action of combined loads (rigid / flexible pile)

Piles II. - pile group

Footing slab I. - design with respect to soil - structure interaction

Footing slab II. - piled raft, example and discussion

Bracing I. - design approaches related to soil - structure interaction

Bracing II. - FEM application, excavation, loading stages, deformation development

Bracing III. - composite and diaphragm walls

Eurocode 7 - 1, principles, design approaches

Faults in foundation engineering design and remedial actions, case histories

Site investigation, soil/rock data and geotechnical site model

Examples of geotechnical constructions and potential risk identification

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Study Objective:

Ability in design of geotechnical structures in difficult geological conditions.

Study materials:

HULLA, J. a kol.: Zakladanie stavieb, ALFA-SNTL Brat.-Praha,1987

Lamboj, L., Štěpánek, Z.: Zakládání staveb 10 - Výpočty 2, doplňk. skriptum, ČVUT Praha, 1997

ČSN P ENV 1997-1 Navrhování geotechnických konstrukcí. Část 1: Obecná pravidla, ČNI Praha 1996

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No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: