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Winter Semester 2011-2012 Class Test - 2

CEU 313 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING II

1. A strip footing 1.2 m wide, is supported on a soil with its base at a depth of 1 m below ground surface. The soil properties are as below: c =15 kN/m2, =28, t =18 kN/m3, =10 kN/m3. Determine the ultimate bearing capacity if (a) water table is at a great depth, (b) water table is at the level of the base of the footing, (c) water table is at the ground surface and (d) water table at a depth of 0.4 m below base of the footing. Use the Terzaghi equation. 2. A column, carrying a load of 750 kN, has to be supported by a square footing with its base at 1.5 m depth. What is the required size of the foundation which will provide a factor of safety of 3 against shear failure? Assume c =10 kN/m2, = 30, t =18 kN/m3, =10 kN/m3. Water table is at 1.5 m depth. Use Terzaghis equation. 3. A rectangular footing, 2 m 3.5 m, is placed at a depth of 1.5 m below ground surface. Determine by Meyerhofs recommendations, the net safe load that can be supported by the footing with a factor of safety of 2.5 with respect to shear failure. The soil properties are: c = 20 kN/m2, = 22. 4. Calculate the net ultimate bearing capacity of a rectangular footing 2 m 3 m in plan, founded at a depth of 1.5 m below the ground surface. The load on the footing acts at an angle of 12 to the vertical and is eccentric in both directions of width and length by 10 cm. Take c=20 kN/m2, =32, t=18 kN/m3. Use Meyerhofs analysis. 5. A rectangular footing, with a plan area of 1.4 m 2 m is to be placed at a depth of 2 m below the ground surface. The footing would be subjected to a load inclined at 10 to the vertical. The subsoil is clayey, sandy silt with saturated unit weight of 18 kN/m3, c = 10 kN/m2 and = 30. Assuming the rate of loading is such that drained condition prevails. Compute the magnitude of load the footing can carry if the water table is at the base of the footing. Use Meyarhofs equations. Take factor of safety against shear failure is 3. 6. A chimney, with a rigid base 2.0 m square, is placed at a depth of 1 m below the ground surface. The soil is clay with an unconfined compressive strength of 55 kN/m2 and unit weight of 20 kN/m3. The weight of the chimney is 60 kN. The chimney has a resultant wind load of 19.0 kN acting parallel to one of the sides of the chimney base at a height of 1.2 m above the ground surface. Determine the factor of safety with respect to bearing capacity. Use Meyerhofs recommendations. 7. The corrected blow count from SPT in a medium sand, observed at an average depth of 2.5 m was 22 blows/30 cm. laboratory tests conducted on the sample revealed the following physical properties: c = 0, = 30 and t =18.5 kN/m3. The water table was located at 4.5 m from the ground level. It is planned to place a 2 m wide square footing at a depth of 2 m. estimate the allowable gross bearing pressure for the soil if the factor of safety against shear failure is 2.5 and limiting settlement is 25 mm. 8. A retaining wall, 6 m high, has a vertical back and supports a horizontal sand backfill with = 30 and t =17 kN/m3. It is resting on a soil which has t =17.5 kN/m3, c = 0 and = 32. The natural ground level is located 1.5 m above the toe level. The weight of the wall is 250 kN/m and its line of action passes at a distance of 0.75 m from the heel. The base width of the retaining wall

CEU313 Geotechnical Engineering II, Winter Semester 2011-2012, Class Test 2

is 2.5 m. Determine the ultimate bearing capacity per metre length of the wall, using IS: 6403 (1981) recommendations. 9. A long bridge pier, 3 m wide, carries a load of 1640 kN per liner metre of its length. It is founded 5 m below the ground level on a soil whose angle of friction is 15 and unit cohesion is 38.4 kN/m2. The unit weight of the soil is 15.7 kN/m3. Check for the safety of the pier if the factor of safety is 3.0. 10. A rectangular footing 4 m 2 m exerts a pressure of 80 kN/m2 on a cohesive soil (Es=5.1104 kN/m2, =0.5). Determine the immediate settlement at the centre, assuming the footing is (a) flexible, (b) rigid. 11. In a plate load test using a 305 mm square plate on a sandy soil under a pressure of 150 kN/m2, a settlement of 8 mm was recorded: (i) estimate the settlement of a 600 mm square plate at the same contact pressure and (ii) what should be the size of a square footing if the settlement is to be restricted to 25 mm? 12. The following are the results of a plate-load test conducted on a c- soil. Load (kN) Size of plate (mm) Settlement (mm) 50 0.3 0.3 25 125 0.6 0.6 25 Find the size of square footing to carry a load of 750 kN at the same specified settlement of 25 mm. 13. A square footing of 3.0 m size, resting on a sand deposit with its base at a depth of 2 m below the ground surface. The total pressure at the foundation level is 250 kN/m2. The variation of cone penetration resistance, qc with depth below the foundation is shown in table below. Depth, m qc, kN/m2 <1.0 3000 1.0 to 3.0 4000 3.0 to 4.0 7000 4.0 to 6.0 3000

Determine the settlement of the foundation using both the De-Beer and Martens approach and Schmertmanns approach. What will be the actual settlement if the effect of rigidity of footing and depth of embedment is taken into account? Depth of water table is located at 1.5 m below the ground surface. Take t =18 kN/m3 and sat =20 kN/m3. 14. A footing, 2 m 2 m in plan, rests on a soft clay soil with its base at a depth of 1.5 m from ground surface. The clay stratum is 3.5 m thick and is underlain by a firm sand stratum. The clay soil having the properties of u = 0, cu = 50 kN/m2, sat = 19 kN/m3, Cc = 0.18 and eo = 1.08. Natural water table is close to the ground surface and assumes F.S. is 3.0. Using Skemptons equation, determine the net safe bearing capacity of the footing. Also compute the settlement that would result if this load intensity were allowed to act on the footing. 15. A rectangular footing, 2 m 3 m in plan, founded at a depth of 1.5 m below the ground surface. The variation of SPT resistance values of fine sand with depth below the ground surface is shown in table below. Depth, m SPT, Nf 0.75 1.5 8 40 3.0 28 4.5 32 6.0 42

water table is located at a depth of 2.0 m below the ground surface. Assume t = 18 kN/m3 and allowable settlement is 25 mm. Determine the allowable bearing pressure for the footing using

CEU313 Geotechnical Engineering II, Winter Semester 2011-2012, Class Test 2

various correlations based on settlement failure criterion and shear failure criterion. Also report the safe bearing pressure against both the shear failure and settlement criteria using IS code recommendation. 16. Write the limitations in computation of settlement of footing. Also discuss the Limitations in settlement calculations under plate load test. 17. Design a R.C.C. footing to carry a column (50 cm 50 cm) with 2500 kN load. The allowable soil pressure is 250 kN/m2. 18. Design a R.C.C. footing for a wall 30 cm wide and having a load of 80 kN/m. The allowable soil pressure is 50 kN/m2. 19. Design a rectangular combined footing to support two adjacent columns (size: 40 cm 40 cm) at a distance of 5 m and carrying loads of 3 MN and 4 MN. The lighter column is near the property line. The allowable soil pressure is 400 kN/m2. 20. Design a trapezoidal combined footing for two columns (30 cm 30 cm) carrying column loads of 1.2 MN and 0.9 MN, if the spacing between the two columns is 4 m. Take allowable soil pressure as 200 kN/m2 and the length of footing as 5 m. 21. A raft (20 m 10 m) exerts a gross pressure of 200 kN/m2 at foundation level. The depth of foundation is 2.5 m. If the soil is clay (=0, cu = 80 kN/m2, =19 kN/m3), determine the factor of safety. The raft is for a basement. Use Skemptons equation.

CEU313 Geotechnical Engineering II, Winter Semester 2011-2012, Class Test 2