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Geo-Technical Engineering Exam Guide

This document contains instructions for a final term examination in geo-technical and foundation engineering. It includes four questions covering various topics: 1) Components of total settlement, slope stability method for stress increase in soil layers, types of piles by installation method, and allowable bearing capacity. 2) Constructing a consolidation diagram using soil properties and calculating overconsolidation ratio and consolidation settlement. 3) Discussing effective vs total shear strength for pile capacity in cohesive soils and calculating load factors for a pile based on soil properties. 4) Calculating ultimate pile capacity using soil properties and adjusting for a consolidating fill layer above the natural soil.

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Geo-Technical Engineering Exam Guide

This document contains instructions for a final term examination in geo-technical and foundation engineering. It includes four questions covering various topics: 1) Components of total settlement, slope stability method for stress increase in soil layers, types of piles by installation method, and allowable bearing capacity. 2) Constructing a consolidation diagram using soil properties and calculating overconsolidation ratio and consolidation settlement. 3) Discussing effective vs total shear strength for pile capacity in cohesive soils and calculating load factors for a pile based on soil properties. 4) Calculating ultimate pile capacity using soil properties and adjusting for a consolidating fill layer above the natural soil.

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FINAL TERM EXAMINATION

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING N.W.F.P UNIVERSITY OF


ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, PESHAWAR.

CE * 307: Geo-Technical & Foundation Engineering


6th Semester (Spring-2008)
Type: Theory

Time: 02 hrs

: Write notes on the following:

(a) Components of total settlement


(b) Slope 2:1 method to calculate average stress increase in a soil layer due to footing
pressure.
(c) Types of piles according to the method of installation.
(d) Allowable bearing Capacity.
[5, 5, 3, 2]
: The existing effective overburden pressure at mid height of a 10 m clay layer is 80
kPa. After an embankment is constructed over this clay layer, the average stress increase
in the clay layer is 90 kPa. The consolidation test gives following properties of the clay:
Recompression index is 0.03, Compression index is 0.25, void ratio before the
construction of embankment at mid height of clay layer is 0.84, and the maximum
effective pressure that the clay had experienced in the past is 130 kPa. Do the following:
(i)
Construct the log(crF) Vs e diagram and show the given data on it.
(ii)
Calculate the OCR of the clay?
(iii) Calculate the consolidation settlement.
[5, 2, 8]
Q3: (a) Which type of shear strength parameters (total or effective) would you use to find
end bearing resistance and skin friction for piles in cohesive soils and why?
(b) A precast concrete pile 450 mm square in section and 12 m long is to be driven into a
river bed which consists of a depth of sand. The standard penetration resistance (N) at the
pile base is 39, and the average value of N along the pile length is 19. The pile is required
to support a compressive load of 750 kN and to withstand an uplift load of 300 kN: Find
the load factor against compressive and uplift load. [Hint: end bearing resistance (kN/m2)
= 40N L/B < 400 N; skin resistance (kN/m2) - 2 NBVK]
[5,10]
Q4: A 400 mm diameter pile is driven to an embedment depth of 12 m in clay, which has
the following properties:
c,, = 80 kN/m2 at pile base, (|>u=0, unit weight of clay above and below W.T. is 20 kN/m3.
The ground water level is at 3 m from ground surface. Calculate
(a)
Ultimate load capacity for the pile if P=0.4.
(b)
If top 3 m of the 12m clay layer is considered to be fill material consolidating
under its own weight of y=20 kN/m3, find ultimate capacity of the pile, if p=0.25
for the fill material.
[7, 8]

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