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Course Code- CEB 702 - Branch & School BE-Civil (Hons)
Name Geotechnical & SBCE
Engineering
Year Year - 3 Semester Semester – 1
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Assume suitable soil parameters or any other data and mention it explicitly in
the solution
2. All questions are mandatory to write
Q. No. Questions
1 A square footing 2 m wide carries a load intensity of 400 kPa at a depth of
1.5 m in sand. The saturated unit weight of sand is 20 kN/m³ and unit
weight above water table is 16 kN/m³. If c = 0 and ϕ = 26°, determine the
factor of safety with respect to shear failure for the following locations of
water table:
a. Water Table (WT) equivalent to the Ground Level (GL)
b. WT is 1.5 m below GL
c. WT is 3.0 m below GL
d. WT is 6.0 m below GL
2 As shown in figure, a 0.8 m diameter round pile driven into a sandy soil
stratum. Compute the allowable pile capacity with FOS 3.0. Assume any
other data as needed.
3 A SPT test was conducted for newly proposed construction of multi-
million business hub and the following data was obtained. Determine the
corrected SPT values.
SPT Bulk Unit
Depth Moisture
Soil Description N- Weight Remarks
(m) Content (%)
value (kN/m³)
Soft silty clay,
0 – 1.5 4 28 16.5 Surface crust
gray, damp
1.5 – Soft clay, gray, Water table at
6 32 17.0
3.0 plastic 3.0 m
3.0 – Medium stiff Below water
10 30 18.5
6.0 clay, brown table
6.0 – Medium stiff Consistent
12 29 18.7
9.0 clay, brown stiffness
Stiff clay, dark
9.0 – Slight organic
brown, with 15 26 19.0
12.0 content
roots
12.0– Very stiff clay, Dry fissures
18 24 19.5
15.0 reddish-brown visible
15.0– Very stiff clay Approaching
22 22 20.0
18.0 with silt pockets weathered zone
4 A retaining wall has a vertical back and is 10 m high. The back face of the
wall is smooth, and the upper surface of the fill is horizontal. Determine
the active thrust and its line of action on the wall per unit length. Take C=
18 kN/m2, = 21 kN/m3, ϕ= 18° neglect tension.
5 Determine the forces on the struts for the bracing shown below. Assume
hinges at levels B, C and D. Take density and cohesion as 18 kN/m3 and
30 kN/m3 respectively. Assuming the horizontal spacing between the
struts is 2.0 m.
6 A cantilever sheet pile wall penetrating a granular soil. Take L1 = 2.5 m,
L2 = 3.5 m, bulk density = 16 kN/m3, saturated density = 19.33 kN/m3, and
ϕ = 32°.
a) What is the theoretical depth of embedment, D?
b) For a 30% increase in D, what should be the total length of the
sheet piles?
7 A cast in-situ two bulb under reamed pile having a diameter of 500 mm
and 10 m length was placed in a soil stratum. The top 3.5 m is expansive
soil had a Cu = 25 kPa. The below soil layer had a Cu = 40 kPa. Determine
the pile load capacity (both compression and tension). Take = 0.5
