Here you can download the free lecture Notes of Geotechnical Engineering I Notes pdf – GTE I Notes Pdf materials with multiple file links to download. The Geotechnical Engineering I Notes pdf – GTE I Notes Pdf book starts with the topics covering Soil formation – soil structure and clay mineralogy, Grain size analysis, Soil water – capillary rise – flow of water through soils, neutral and effective stresses, Immediate settlement primary consolidation and secondary consolidation stress history of clay, Importance of sheer strength, strength tests based on drainage conditions, Etc.
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Note :- These notes are according to the R09 Syllabus book of JNTU.In R13 and R15,8-units of R09 syllabus are combined into 5-units in R13 and R15 syllabus. If you have any doubts please refer to the JNTU Syllabus Book.
UNIT – I
INTRODUCTION: Soil formation – soil structure and clay mineralogy – Adsorbed water – Mass- volume relationship – Relative density.
UNIT – II
INDEX PROPERTIES OF SOILS: Grain size analysis – Sieve and Hydrometer methods – consistency limits and indices – I.S. Classification of soils
UNIT –III
PERMEABILITY: Soil water – capillary rise – flow of water through soils – Darcy’s law- permeability – Factors affecting – laboratory determination of coefficient of permeability –Permeability of layered soils – Insitu permeability tests(Pumping in and pumping out tests).
UNIT – IV
EFFECTIVE STRESS & SEEPAGE THROUGH SOILS: Total, neutral and effective stresses –quick sand condition – Seepage through soils – Flownets: Characteristics and Uses.
Geotechnical Engineering I Notes pdf – GTE I Notes Pdf
UNIT – V
STRESS DISTRIBUTION IN SOILS: Boussinesq’s and Wester gaard’s theories for point loads, uniformly loaded circular and rectangular areas , pressure bulb, variation and vertical stress under point load along the vertical and horizontal plane and – Newmark’s influence chart for irregular areas.
UNIT – VI
COMPACTION: Mechanism of compaction – factors affecting – effects of compaction on soil properties. – Field compaction Equipment – compaction quality control.
UNIT – VII
CONSOLIDATION : Types of compressibility – Immediate settlement primary consolidation and secondary consolidation stress history of clay; e-p and e-log p curves –normally consolidated soil and under consolidated soil , preconditionalised pressure and its determination – Terzaghi’s 1-D consolidation Theory – coefficient of consolidation:square root time and logarithm of time fitting methods.
UNIT – VIII
SHEAR STRENGTH OF SOILS : Importance of sheer strength — Mohr – Coulomb Failure theories – Types of laboratory strength tests – strength tests based on drainage conditions – Shear strength of sands –dilatancy – Critical Void Ratio – Liquefaction- shear strength of clays.
Reference – Geotechnical Engineering – GE notes pdf – GE pdf notes – GE Pdf – GE Notes
1. Geotechnical Engineering by C. Venkataramiah, New age International Pvt . Ltd, ( 2002).
2. Soil Mechanics – T.W. Lambe and Whitman, Mc-Graw Hill Publishing Company, Newyork.
3. Geotechnical Engineering by Purushotham Raj
4. Geotechnical Engineering by Manoj Dutta & Gulati S.K – Tata Mc.Grawhill Publishers New Delhi.
Text books – Geotechnical Engineering – GE notes pdf – GE pdf notes – GE Pdf – GE Notes
1 Basic and Applied Soil Mechanics by Gopal Ranjan & ASR Rao, New age International Pvt . Ltd, New Delhi
2. Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engg. By K.R. Arora, Standard Publishers and Distributors, Delhi.
3. Soil Mechanics and Foundation by by B.C.Punmia, Ashok Kumar Jain and Arun Kumar Jain, Laxmi, publications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi
