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: cejnm@civil.iitb.ac.in
 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 %