NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Faculty of Industrial Technology

Department of Civil and Water Engineering
Geotechnical Engineering II

Test-Foundation desiga
Question1

a. Outline the three modes of foundation failure (3 marks)

which should be taken when constructing foundations under the following
D. Explain measures

i. on surface rocks ii. adjacent to existing structures

conditions (3 marks)
iii. adjacent to water bodies
the surface of a soil mass, find the
homogenous intensity of the
A concentrated load of 30kN acts on

the load (ii) Ata horizontal distance of 6m (4 marks)

stress at a depth of 8m (i)directly below
allowable bearing pressure of a 2.5m x [Link] square
d. Use Meyerhoff equation to determine the
shear. The soil parameters are C= 17kN/mí, p 24, y = =

footing at a depth of 1.5m for local (10 marks)

level and the safety factor is 2
20.7kN/m°. The water table level is 2.2m below ground

Question 2

driven piles (4 marks)

State four advantages and disadvantages of using
can be used to support a
dead load of 8MN and a live
b. Determine the number of driven piles which
indicates that the
diameter and 10.7m long. The soil profile
load of 4.5MN. The piles are 0.55m in conducted
resistance. Three CPTs that were
3m comprises of peat which does not provide shaft
top (8 marks)
gave a resistance of 16.4MPa
for a water tank. The piles are
is used to provide the foundation
A rectangular group of 6No. piles Determine the group efficiency given
and spaced at Im centres.
400mm in diameter and 8.2m long (4 marks)
that the soil has an unconfined compression
strength of 130kN/m*
stratified such that
load if the soil was
what would be the allowable working
For the s a m e pile group
whose unconfined compression strength
cu was

was embedded in clay

the top 3.5m length of the pile 110kN/m". The
unconfined compression strength of cu
=

4.7m layer had an

78kN/m and the bottom
factor of safety is 2.5 and O
is given by the expression (4 marks)
LBgcNe + 2(Lg + Bg)cuAL
Q =

the group length and width and cu and L are the unconfined compressive
where Lg and Bg are

strength and corresponding

length of each layer.

Total marks: 40

1.000 1500 2.000

0.400 0.500 0.750
0.00 0.200 0300 0.025 0.008
O000 0.273 0.156 0.084
0.466 0433 0.329
4, 0477

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