Concepts in Geotechnical and Foundation Engineering (DVD)

Media Storage Type : DVD-ROM

NPTEL Course Name : Concepts in Geotechnical and Foundation Engineering

NPTEL Subject Matter Expert : Dr. Nainan P. Kurian

NPTEL Co-ordinating Institute : IIT Madras

NPTEL Lecture Count : 16

Lecture Titles:

Lecture 1 - Void ratio (e) - porosity (n) relationship
Lecture 2 - The "effective stress principle" - A theoretical building block
Lecture 3 - Shear strength - The characteristic strength of soil
Lecture 4 - Earth pressures
Lecture 5 - Bearing capacity - The load bearing role of soil
Lecture 6 - Permeability - The flow of water through soil
Lecture 7 - Consolidation - A cause of settlement of foundations
Lecture 8 - Compaction - The densification of soil
Lecture 9 - The essence of geotechnical design of foundations
Lecture 10 - Geotechnical design of shallow foundations in cohesive and cohesionless soils
Lecture 11 - Geotechnical design of deep foundations
Lecture 12 - Special piles
Lecture 13 - Geotechnical design (Stability analysis) of retaining structures
Lecture 14 - Soil pressure for structural design
Lecture 15 - Soil-structure interaction - A brief review of its implications
Lecture 16 - Some routine field tests in foundation engineering