Course Details
Foundation Engineering (S)
Academic Year 2025/26
BFA003 course is part of 3 study plans
BPA-SI Winter Semester 3rd year
BPC-SI / S Winter Semester 3rd year
BKC-SI Winter Semester 3rd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Credits
4 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
To offer to students of all faculties
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, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction. Earth pressures.
- 2. Shallow foundations. 1st a 2nd limit states.
- 3. Programme Geo 5.
- 4. Vertikal bearing capacity of pile foundations, 1st limit state.
- 5. Vertikal 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.