Course Details

Foundation Engineering (E)

Academic Year 2024/25

CF052 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Introduction. Limit states principles, geotechnical categories. Shallow footings – pads, strip footings, foundation slabs. 2. Design and check of shallow footings – 1st and 2nd limit states. 3. Improvement of soil properties for shallow foundations. Gravelly pillows. 4. Deep foundations – basic elements. Caissons. Open caissons. 5. Distribution of piles(displacement, replacement). Bored piles. CFA piles. Technology of building. 6. Design of axial loaded bored piles. – limit bearing capacity, limit loading curve. 7. Uncased piles – building technology. Vibropiles. 8. Micropiles – types, construction method, utilization. 9. Diaphragm walls and lamellas – construction method and utilization. 10. Anchors-distribution, design and technology. 11. Jet grouting – technology, jet grouting use. 12. Foundation pits and their timbering. Braces sheeting, pile walls, diaphragm walls. 13. Static design of foundation pit timbering. Foundation underpinning.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1.-2. Introduction into foundation engineering. Video. 3.-4. Design and check of shallow footings. 5.-6. vDeep foundations. Bearing capacity of single bored pile. 7.-8. Design of retaining wall. 9.-10. Programme Geo 5. 11.-12. Special foundation technologies. Video. 13. Credit.