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.