AKTU Soil Mechanics (BAG301) Syllabus PDF – B.Tech 2nd Year
Soil Mechanics BAG301
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Syllabus — Soil Mechanics
Download PDFBAG301 · 4 credits · L-T-P 3-1-0
| Scheme and Credits | L-T-P Theory Marks Sessional Total Credit |
| Test | Assig/Att. |
| 3—1—0 | 4 |
| Pre-requisites (if any) | Basic knowledge of mathematics and physics of secondary level. |
Course Outcomes
Course Outcomes
Course Outcomes
| CO 1 | Familiar with basic information of the soil and soil properties. | K & K 1 2 |
| CO 2 | Understand the concept of Permeability and vertical stress below applied load. | K 2 |
| CO 3 | Analyze the shear strength of the soil. | K 4 |
| CO 4 | Understand the concept of compaction and consolidation. | K 2 |
| CO 5 | Illustrate the earth pressure theory, and stability of slope. | K & K 2 4 |
K - Remember, K - Understand, K - Apply, K - Analyze, K -Evaulate, K - Create
Course Content
Nature and origin of soil; Soil forming rocks and minerals their classification and composition, important physical properties of soil. Introduction of soil mechanics, fields of soil mechanics, phase diagram, physical and index properties of soil, classification of soils.
Permeability, Darcy's Law, laboratory determination of hydraulic conductivity, equivalent hydraulic conductivity in stratified soil., effective and neutral stress, elementary concept of Boussinesq and Wester guards analysis, new mark influence chart.
Shear strength, Mohr stress circle, theoretical relationship between principle stress circle, theoretical relationship between principal stress, Mohr coulomb failure theory, effective stress principle.
Determination of shear parameters by direct shear test, triaxial test & vane shear test. Numerical exercise based on various types of tests.
Compaction, composition of soils standard and modified protector test, abbot compaction and Jodhpur mini compaction test field compaction method and control. Consolidation of soil: Consolidation of soils, one dimensional consolidation spring analogy, Terzaghi’s theory, Laboratory consolidation test, calculation of void ratio and coefficient of volume change, Taylor’s and Casagrande’s method, determination of coefficient of consolidation.
Earth pressure: plastic equilibrium in soils, active and passive states, Rankine’s theory of earth pressure, active and passive earth pressure for cohesive soils, simple numerical exercises. Stability of slopes: introduction to stability analysis of infinite and finite slopes friction circle method, Taylor’s stability number. [BAG- 351] SOIL MECHANICS LAB
- Determination of water content of soil.
- Determination of specific gravity of soil.
- Determination of field density of soil by core cutter method.
- Determination of field density by sand replacement method.
- Grain size analysis by sieving (Dry sieve analysis).
- Grain size analysis by hydrometer method.
- Determination of shrinkage limit.
- Determination of permeability by constant head method.
- Determination of permeability by variable head method.
- Determination of shear strength of soil by direct shear test.
- Determination of compaction characteristics (OMC & MDD) of the given soil sample. LAB OUTCOMES:
- Conduct experiments determine the water content and specific gravity of the soil.
- Demonstrate the grain size distribution in soil.
- Perform experiment illustrating consistency of soil.
- Experiments enables to determine the permeability of the given soil specimen.
- Soil Mechanics, B.C. Punamia; Laxmi Publication (P) Ltd. New Delhi.
- Punamia B.C. and Jain, A.K., 2005. Soil Mechanics and Foundations. Laxmi Pub. (P) Ltd. New Delhi.
- Ranjan Gopal and Rao ASR, 1993. Basic and Applied Soil Mechanics. Welley Easters Ltd., New Delhi.
- Indian Society of Soil Science.1998. Fundamental of Soil Science, IARI, New Delhi.
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