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Foundation Engineering in Difficult Conditions

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 224-0208/02
Abbreviation ZSP
Course title Foundation Engineering in Difficult Conditions
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Geotechnics and Underground Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Dr. Ing. Hynek Lahuta

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1. Contents of lecture. Deep foundations (well foundations, caisson, diafraghm walls).
2. Interaction between pile and foundation ground, settlement of drilled-shaft foundation, ultimate capacity of vertical piles due to second limit states.
3. Drilled-shaft foundation - technology.
4. Point bearing capacity of drilled-shaft piles.
5. Calculatoin of bearing capacity piles with vertical and horizontal direction
6. Inclination of slopes of foundation pits, dewatering of foundation pits.
7. Design of deep foundations by EC7 (eurocode).
8. Special way of foundation.
Literature:
B.M.Das: Principles of foundation engineering 5E. Brooks/Cole Thomson, London 2004
J.Atkinson: The mechanics of soils and foundations. McGraw-Hill Boook Company, London 1993.

E-learning

www.geotechnici.cz
LMS Moodle VŠB-TUO

Literature

Das, B.M. Principles of Foundation Engineering. Broks/Cole Thomson, 2004. 743 pp. ISBN 0-534-40752-8.
Bond A, Harris A. Decoding Eurocode 7. London: Taylor & Francis, 2008. ISBN 978-0-415-40948-3.

Advised literature

Atkinson, J.: The mechanics of soils and foundations. McGraw-Hill Company, 1993