Spring 2010
Class hours and room: MWF 9-9:50
AM, MCB 108
Instructor:
Dr. Sangchul Bang
Professor of Civil and
Environmental Engineering
CM 238
Official Office Hours: MWF 10:00-12:00
noon
Tel) 394-2440
E-mail: sangchul.bang@sdsmt.edu
Course Description: Application
of the principles of soil mechanics to foundation engineering; subsurface
exploration; lateral earth pressures and retaining structures; bearing capacity
and settlement of shallow and deep foundations; field instrumentation and
performance observations; and case studies.
Prerequisite: CEE 284 and CEE 346.
Instruction Methods: Three hours of classroom lecture per week.
Course Requirements:
Textbooks:
None.
Class Attendance Policy:
Students are expected to attend all classroom lectures.
Cheating and plagiarism Policy: Any
type of cheating or plagiarism will result in a failing grade.
Make-up Policy: There will be no
make-up exam.
Course Goals:
This course is designed to
provide broad background in Foundation Engineering for seniors and graduate
students in Civil Engineering and Geological Engineering with working knowledge
in the design and analysis of shallow and deep foundations and related topics.
Expectations:
Students should know how to
use spreadsheets and Mathcad, be familiar with engineering mechanics principles,
be familiar with differentiation, integration, and differential
equations, and be familiar with the basics in soil mechanics.
Evaluation Procedures:
Requirements for Homework:
Problems will be assigned periodically. The following format is in effect for
homework problems:
Topics to be covered
1. Shallow Foundations
a) Design Criteria
b) Bearing Capacity Determination
c) Displacement Solution
d) Finite Difference Analysis (*)
2. Single Pile Foundations
a) Vertical Bearing Capacity
b) Vertical Displacement Solution
c) Lateral Bearing Capacity
d) Lateral Displacement Solution (*)
e) Cast-In-Drilled-Hole Piles
f) Wave Equation Analysis
3. Group Piles
a) Small Group
b) Large Group
c) Matrix Solution (*)
4. Piers and Caissons
5. Additional Topics
(*)
Indicates computer application
Note:
Students with special needs
or requiring special accommodations should contact the instructor and/or the
campus
Freedom in
learning: Students are responsible for learning the content of any course of
study in which they are enrolled. Under Board of Regents and University policy,
student academic performance shall be evaluated solely on an academic basis and
students should be free to take reasoned exception to the data or views offered
in any course of study. Students who believe that an academic evaluation is
unrelated to academic standards but is related instead to judgment of their
personal opinion or conduct should contact the dean of the college which offers
the class to initiate a review of the evaluation.