General

3 credits, Fall Semester
Required (CIE Fall senior year)
Technical Elective (ENV Fall)
Three 50-minute lectures (or equivalent) per week

Recent Instructor(s)

Dr. Rowland Richards Jr., (Fall 2001, 02)
(716) 645-2114 ext.2417
Dr. Prasanta Banerjee (Fall 2003, 04)
(716) 645-2114 ext. 2426
pkb@eng.buffalo.edu

URL

None

Prerequisite(s)

CIE334

Catalogue Description

Application of soil mechanics to engineering problems. Soil exploration and sampling. States of plastic equilibrium, bearing capacity, and settlement of foundations. Foundation design, spread footing, mat, raft, piles, and caissons. Lateral earth pressures, retaining walls, braced excavations, and slope stability.

Course Objectives/Outcomes

This course presents the application of the fundamental concepts of soil mechanics and techniques for sampling and soil exploration to design deep and shallow foundations, earth slopes, and retaining structures. The emphasis is on utilizing the basic principles of solid mechanics including seepage, limit equilibrium and load-deformation characteristics to evaluate the safety and serviceability of alternative designs within the constraints of code provisions and economic feasibility. Specific topics include isolated, strip and mat footing, rafts, different types of piles, caissons, cotter dams, earth dams, bulkheads, braced excavations, tunnels and buried pipe.

Text(s)

Principles of Foundation Engineering (2002 5th Edition) Braja M Das, Thomson-Cole,
ISBNO-534-40752-8

Outcomes (ABET a-k)

c, e

Outcomes (CIE)

2, 3, 5

Outcomes (ENV)

8

Other information

Review by Undergraduate Studies Committee

October 22, 2002

Prepared by

Dr. Alan J. Rabideau/Dr. Rowland Richards Jr., (Nov-02)