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Code :R7410101 IV B.Tech I Semester(R07) Regular Examinations November/December 2010 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING-II Time: 3 hours
(Civil Engineering )

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Answer any FIVE questions All questions carry equal marks Max Marks: 80

1. (a) Describe open excavation methods of exploration. What are their advantages and Disadvantages? (b) What is a bore log? Give a typical example. 2. (a) Explain step by step the standard methods of slices for the analysis of stability of slopes. (b) How do you locate the centre of critical circles in case of: i. Cohesive soils ii. Cohesion less soils 3. (a) What is earth pressure at rest? Derive an expression for it in terms of Poissons ratio. (b) A vertical retaining wall supports a cohesive backll having cohesion of 24kN/m2 and an angle of shearing resistance of 80 . The height of the wall is 12 m and G.W.L is 4m below the crest. The bulk density of the soil above G.W. L. is 16.5kN/m3 and the saturated soil density is 20kN/m3 . The ground surface behind the wall which is horizontal and level with the wall crest carries uniform surcharge of 12kN/m2 . i. Determine the total horizontal thrust on the wall in kN per linear meter if the angle of wall friction is zero and tension cracks have formed? ii. To what depth is the pressure on the wall zero? iii. At what height above the base the total horizontal thrust act? 4. A masonry retaining wall of trapezoidal section has its top width equal to 0.75m and height 5m. Its face which is in contact with the retained earth is vertical. The earth retained is level at top. The soil weights 16kN/m3 and its angle of internal friction is 300 . The masonry weighs 24kN/m3 . Determine the minimum width of the base to avoid tensile stresses and also determine the maximum and minimum compressive stresses for this base width. If the coecient of friction between base and the soil is 0.60, check the stability of the retaining wall against sliding. 5. (a) Dierentiate between i. Shallow foundation and deep foundation, ii. Gross and net bearing capacity, iii. Safe bearing capacity and soil pressure. (b) Explain clearly General shear failure and Local shear failure and indicate the eld situations under which each type of failure occurs.

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6. (a) How to correlate the plate load test data to the actual foundations? (b) A square footing 2.5m size is founded at a depth of 1.5m in a sandy soil deposit which has the corrected N value of 30. The water tables is at a depth of 2m from the ground surface. Find the net allowable soil pressure if i. the desired factor of safety is 3.0 and ii. the permissible settlement is 40 mm. Use Tengs equations. 7. (a) How do you classify pile foundations on the basis of i. material, ii. load transfer and iii. method of installation. (b) Write Hileys universal pile formula based on pile driving data. Explain the symbols used. Discuss its validity. 8. (a) What are the dierent shapes of foundation wells, and what are their comparative merits and demerits? (b) Enumerate the various forces which act on a foundation well.

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Code :R7410101 IV B.Tech I Semester(R07) Regular Examinations November/December 2010 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING-II Time: 3 hours
(Civil Engineering )

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Answer any FIVE questions All questions carry equal marks Max Marks: 80

1. (a) Describe with the help of a neat sketch the wash boring method of subsoil exploration. In what type of soils this method is recommended? What are the limitation of this method? (b) Discuss briey the methods of taking undisturbed samples in i. non - cohesive soil, and ii. cohesive soil . 2. (a) What is Taylors stability number? How do you use the stability chart? (b) Give the step by step procedure for analyzing the stability of the upstream slope of an earth dam by the Swedish method of slices. Bring out the eect of sudden draw down on the stability of slope. 3. (a) Discuss briey about Coulombs earth pressure theory. (b) Explain how you will determine active pressure by Culmanns graphical method for cohesion less soil without surcharge line load. 4. (a) List and explain the stability consideration for retaining walls. (b) A masonry retaining wall of trapezoidal section with the vertical face on the earth side is 1.5m wide at the top and 3.5m wide at the base and is 5.0m high. It retains a sand ll sloping at 2 horizontal to 1 vertical. The unit weight of sand is 18kn/m3 and = 300 .Find the maximum and minimum pressure at the base of the wall assuming the unit weight of masonry as 23kN/m3 . 5. (a) How is depth of the foundation determined? (b) A square footing 2.5m2.5m and carries a load of 2000 kN. Find the factor of safety against bearing failure if the soil below the footing has following values:c = 50kN/m2 , = 150 , y = 17.5kN/m3 and foundation is taken to a depth of 1.5m. Take Nc = 12.5, Nq = 4.5 and Ny = 2.5. 6. (a) Describe plate load test. What are its limitations and uses? (b) How to determine the allowable bearing pressure by using Tengs correlation? 7. (a) Discuss various methods of estimating the pile capacity? (b) A square pile group of 9 piles of 25 cm diameter is arranged with a pile spacing of 1m. The length of piles is 9m. Unit cohension of the clay is 75kN/m2 . Neglecting bearing at the tip of the piles determine the group capacity. Assume adhesion factor of 0.75. 8. (a) Discuss the various forces acting on a well foundation. (b) Explain the process of sinking of an open well.

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Code :R7410101 IV B.Tech I Semester(R07) Regular Examinations November/December 2010 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING-II Time: 3 hours
(Civil Engineering )

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Answer any FIVE questions All questions carry equal marks Max Marks: 80

1. (a) Describe open excavation methods of exploration. What are their advantages and disadvantages? (b) Explain what is meant by disturbed and undisturbed samples. How the degree of disturbance is measured? 2. (a) How do you distinguish a nite slope from an innite slope? What are the various types of failures that are likely to occur in nite slopes? Under what circumstances do they occur? Explain with sketches. (b) How a slope is analyzed using Swedish circle method? Derive an expression for the factor of safety. 3. (a) Explain the major dierences between Rankines and Coulombs theories on lateral earth pressure. (b) A retaining wall with a smooth vertical back has to retain a backll of cohesion less soil up to height of 5m above G.L. The soil has a void ratio of 0.83 and the specic gravity of soil solids is 2.68. The water table is located at a depth of 2m below the top of the backll. The soil above the water table is 20% saturated. The angle of internal friction of the soil above and below water table is found to be 320 and 280 respectively. Plot the active earth pressure distribution diagram and determine the magnitude and point of application of the resultant thrust. 4. (a) What are dierent types of retaining walls? Discuss them clearly. (b) Discuss the principles of design of retaining walls.

5. (a) What are the general considerations in the choice of the foundation type? (b) A strip footing is required to carry a net load of 1200 kN at a depth of 1m. Taking a factor of safety of 3, determine the width of the footing. Take = 300 , y = 20kN/m3 , c = 20kN/m2 .Use Terzaghis theory. Assume general shear failure (Nc = 37, Nq = 22, Ny = 12) 6. (a) What are the limitations of plate load test? (b) A square footing is required to carry a net load of 1200 kN. Determine the size of the footing if the depth of foundation is 2m and tolerable settlement is 40mm. The soil is sandy with N=12, F.S=3, water table is very deep. Use Tengs equation. 7. (a) What is the basis on which the dynamic formulae are derived? Mention two well known dynamic formulae and explain the symbols involved? (b) A 4x4 pile group in square pattern consists of 400mmx400mmx20m long concrete piles placed at 1.0m centers. The soil prole consists of 8m of soft clay (c=25 kPa, adhesion factor = 0.9) underlain by 20m of medium sti clay (c=50kPa, adhesion factor = 0.8). Estimate the safe bearing capacity of the pile group with a factor of safety of 3.0. 8. (a) What are the various components of a well foundation? Discuss them in detail. (b) State the problems associated with well sinking and its remedial measures.

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Code :R7410101 IV B.Tech I Semester(R07) Regular Examinations November/December 2010 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING-II Time: 3 hours
(Civil Engineering )

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Answer any FIVE questions All questions carry equal marks Max Marks: 80

1. (a) Explain and discuss the various factors that help to decide the number and depth of bore holes required for subsoil exploration. (b) Distinguish between Disturbed samples and undisturbed samples. Describe any one procedure of obtaining undisturbed samples for a multi - storied building. 2. (a) Derive an expression for the factor of safety of innite slope in a cohesion less soil. What is the eect of steady seepage parallel to the slope on the stability? (b) An embankment is to be made using a soil with c = 18kN/m2 , = 100 and y = 18.5kN/m3 . The desired factor of safety with respect to cohesion as well as with respect to friction is 1.4. Find i. The safe height if the desired slope is 2 horizontal to 1 vertical ii. The safe angle of slope if the desired height is 16m. 3. (a) Clearly explain the dierence between active earth pressure and passive earth pressure. What is meant by the Critical depth of vertical cut for a soil? (b) A retaining wall with soft, saturated clay backll is 6m high. The unit weight of clay is 16kN/m3 and unit cohesion is 17kN/m2 .Determine:i. Maximum depth of tensile cracks ii. Total active earth pressure before cracks occur and iii. Total active earth pressure after the cracks. 4. A masonry retaining wall of trapezoidal section has its top width equal to 0.75m and height 5m. Its face which is in contact with the retained earth is vertical. The earth retained is level at top. The soil weighs 16kN/m3 and its angle of internal friction is 300 . The masonry weighs 24kN/m3 . Determine the minimum width of the base to avoid tensile stresses and also determine the maximum and minimum compressive stresses for this base width. If the coecient of friction between base and the soil is 0.60, check the stability of the retaining wall against sliding. 5. (a) Bring out clearly the eect of ground water table on the safe bearing capacity. (b) What are the dierences between Terzaghi bearing capacity theory and Meyerhof bearing capacity theory. 6. (a) Describe the procedure of determining the safe bearing capacity based on the standard penetration test. (b) A 1.8 m square column is founded at a depth of 1.8m in sand, for which the corrected N - value is 24. The water table is at a depth of 2.7m. Determine the net allowable bearing pressure for a permissible settlement of 40mm and a factor of safety of 3 against shear failure. 7. (a) Briey explain how the load carrying capacity of a pile is determined using pile load test. (b) A pile group of 9 piles of 40cm diameter, 120 cm centre to centre both ways (Symmetrically placed) is driven to a depth of 12m through clay of unconned compressive strength of 100kN/m2 and density of 20kN/m3 . Assume adhesion factor of 0.5, calculate the load that the group can carry with a factor of safety of 3.0 8. (a) Enumerate and reect through sketches the various components of a foundation well. Discuss briey the function and design of each of these components. (b) Discuss the various remedial measures that can be adopted to rectify the tilts in well foundations

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