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This document provides information on the Geotechnical Engineering I course offered in the autumn semester of 2019. The course will cover topics related to soil and rock properties, classification, compaction, permeability, consolidation, stresses, and settlements. It will be taught on Tuesdays and Fridays from 3:30-4:55 pm in room LC 202. The instructor is Prof. J.N. Mandal, and reference texts and a tentative grading scheme are also listed.

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This document provides information on the Geotechnical Engineering I course offered in the autumn semester of 2019. The course will cover topics related to soil and rock properties, classification, compaction, permeability, consolidation, stresses, and settlements. It will be taught on Tuesdays and Fridays from 3:30-4:55 pm in room LC 202. The instructor is Prof. J.N. Mandal, and reference texts and a tentative grading scheme are also listed.

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CE 323: Geotechnical Engineering I

(Lecture:2, Tutorial:1, Credits:6)


Autumn Semester, 2019
(Slot 11, Tuesday and Friday 15:30 – 16:55 hrs. at LC 202, for
Div. S2)

Instructor: Prof. J. N. Mandal


Office: Room # 142,
Civil Engineering Building, IITB.
Phone: 2576-7328
Email: [email protected]
Course Description
• Origin of Soils and Rocks, Rock cycle
• Basic relationships; Index properties of aggregates
• Soil structure
• Soil classification
• Soil compaction
• Laboratory compaction
• Factors affecting soil compaction
• Field compaction
• Soil-water statics
• Effective stress
• Capillarity phenomenon in soils
• Flow through soils
• Quick sand condition
• Permeability and methods for its determination
• Flownets
• Stresses in soil from surface loads
• Boussinesq theory
• New marks chart
• Contact pressures
• Consolidation of soils
• Settlement of compressible soil layers.
Reference Texts:
• Terzaghi, K., Peck, R. B. & Mesri, G., “Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice”, Wiley,
1996.
• Craig, R.F., “Soil Mechanics” , 7th Ed., Spon Press, 2004.
• Holtz, R.D. & Kovacs, W.D., “An Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering”, Prentice Hall,
1981.
• Lambe, T.W. & Whitman, R.V., “Soil Mechanics”, John Wiley &Sons, 1979.
• Mitchell, J.K. & Soga, K., “Fundamentals of Soil Behaviour”, John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
• Ranjan, Gopal & Rao, A.S.R., “Basic and Applied Soil Mechanics”, New Age Int. Pvt. Ltd.,
2004.
• Bolton, M.D., “A Guide to Soil Mechanics, Universities Press”, 2003.
• Das, B.M., “Principles of Geotechnical Engineering”, Thomson Books,2006.
• Murthy, V. N. S., “Geotechnical Engineering: Principles and Practices of Soil Mechanics
and Foundation Engineering”, CRC Press, 2002.
• Coduto, D.P., “Geotechnical Engineering: Principles and Practices”, Pearson Education,
Prentice Hall, 2007.
• Goodman, R. E., “Introduction to Rock Mechanics” John Wiley & Sons 1989.
• Mandal, J. N., “Geosynthetics Engineering: In Theory and Practice”, Research Publishing,
Singapore, 2017
• Mandal, J. N. And Divshikar, D.G., “Soil Testing in Civil Engineering”, Oxford & IBH
Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, 1994
Tentative Grading Scheme:
Grading
weightage
Midsem Exam 30 %
Final Exam 50 %
Assignment 20 %
Total 100 %

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