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    The document outlines a lecture on foundations, including defining foundations and their importance, types of foundations, factors that influence foundation selection, loads on foundations, ground conditions and their effects on foundations, foundation movements, stress distribution, bearing capacity theories, and methods to analyze settlement. Key topics covered include shallow and deep foundations, geotechnical design considerations, subsurface conditions, stresses and loads, bearing capacity failures, layered soil analysis, footings on rock, and consolidation settlement analysis. The lecture modules provide an overview of foundational concepts in foundation engineering and analysis methods.

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    The document outlines a lecture on foundations, including defining foundations and their importance, types of foundations, factors that influence foundation selection, loads on foundations, ground conditions and their effects on foundations, foundation movements, stress distribution, bearing capacity theories, and methods to analyze settlement. Key topics covered include shallow and deep foundations, geotechnical design considerations, subsurface conditions, stresses and loads, bearing capacity failures, layered soil analysis, footings on rock, and consolidation settlement analysis. The lecture modules provide an overview of foundational concepts in foundation engineering and analysis methods.

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    The document outlines a lecture on foundations, including defining foundations and their importance, types of foundations, factors that influence foundation selection, loads on foundations, ground conditions and their effects on foundations, foundation movements, stress distribution, bearing capacity theories, and methods to analyze settlement. Key topics covered include shallow and deep foundations, geotechnical design considerations, subsurface conditions, stresses and loads, bearing capacity failures, layered soil analysis, footings on rock, and consolidation settlement analysis. The lecture modules provide an overview of foundational concepts in foundation engineering and analysis methods.

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    The document outlines a lecture on foundations, including defining foundations and their importance, types of foundations, factors that influence foundation selection, loads on foundations, ground conditions and their effects on foundations, foundation movements, stress distribution, bearing capacity theories, and methods to analyze settlement. Key topics covered include shallow and deep foundations, geotechnical design considerations, subsurface conditions, stresses and loads, bearing capacity failures, layered soil analysis, footings on rock, and consolidation settlement analysis. The lecture modules provide an overview of foundational concepts in foundation engineering and analysis methods.

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    MODULE 1
    1 Foundations – definition, need, functions and importance; resist vertical,
    lateral and uplift; examples of different types of structures and foundations
    – buildings, water tanks, towers, dams, retaining walls, pavements, railway
    tracks, embankments; Types of foundations – shallow and deep
    foundations
    2 Geotechnical design of foundations – founding level, collapse and
    serviceability; constructability; Factors influencing selection of foundations
    – ground conditions, structure, environmental conditions, performance
    requirements
    3 Loads on foundations – compression, lateral loads, uplift, Construction
    equipment, traffic, machinery, environmental loads – wind, snow,
    hydrostatic pressure/uplift, seasonal volume changes (expansive, frost),
    current and wave forces, vehicle impact loads, earthquake
    4 Ground conditions and their influence on foundation selection, design,
    construction and performance: topography, subsurface strata and
    properties, ground water conditions, seasonal volume changes
    (swelling/shrinkage, frost heave), effect of trees, erosion and scour,
    sinkholes, ground subsidence, organic deposits, decay, liquefaction
    potential, construction problems, stability of excavations, pile installation,
    5 Foundation movements and their effects on structures – total settlement,
    differential settlement, angular distortion, allowable settlements
    6 Variability and uncertainties of the ground and their influence on
    foundation design and construction
    7 Stress distribution, Boussinesq solution, stresses below corner of
    rectangular loaded area
    8 Newmark’s chart
    9 Stress distribution problems
    10 Soil-foundation-structure interaction; Influence of relative stiffness of soil,
    foundation and structure
    11 Overview of subgrade models, Winkler model, modulus of subgrade
    reaction, determination of modulus
    12 Modulus of subgrade reaction for design of footings and rafts.
    13 Contact pressure below footings and rafts
    Assignment 1
    MODULE 2
    14 Depth of foundation based on considerations of bearing capacity,
    settlement, erosion/scour, seasonal volume changes, ground subsidence,
    sloping ground, bed rock profile, codal provisions
    15 Collapse of foundations, bearing capacity; footing load tests, yielding and
    collapse; examples of famous foundation bearing failures
    16 Limiting equilibrium methods, simple case of strip footing on clay and sand
    17 Terzaghi bearing capacity theory; general shear, local shear
    18 Meyerhoff and Brinch Hansen theory, Shape factor, depth factor, ground
    inclination, base inclination, load inclination factors
    19 Bearing capacity problem
    20 Layered soils - 1
    21 Layered soil – problem
    22 Footings and rafts in IGM
    23 Footings on rock
    24 Elastic method; problem
    25 Schmertmann’s method
    26 Schmertmann’s method – problem
    27 Consolidation settlement
    28 Consolidation settlement – problem

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