Course Details

Foundation Engineering (V)

Academic Year 2024/25

BF051 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

graded course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1.-2. Introduction. Shallow footings for water and other structures. 3.-4. Deep foundations – basic elements. Caissons, open caissons and piles. 5.-6. Water pressure tests. Classical injection in water structures. 7.-8. Jet grouting – technology, jet grouting use. 9.-10. Diaphragm walls – construction method and utilization. Encapsulation. Protection of waste dumps. 11.-12. Foundation pits and their timbering. Cofferdams – types and using. 13. Static design of both foundation pit timbering and coffers. Hydraulic stability of coffers.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Introduction. Earth pressures. 2. Shallow foundations. 1st a 2nd limit states. 3. Programme Geo 5. 4. Vertical bearing capacity of pile foundations, 1st limit state. 5. Vertical bearing capacity of pile foundations, 2nd limit state. 6. Design of gravity wall. 7. Programme Geo 5. 8. The design of freestanding sheeting wall. 9. The design of anchored sheeting wall. 10. Programme Geo 5. 11. Dewatering of foundation pit. 12. Individual consultations. 13. Credit.