Pile Foundation

What you'll learn

A brief on Pile foundation

Requirements

1) Sufficient exposure to Soil Mechanics 2) Students must complete the course uploaded on soil mechanics

Description

In this course, the student will be able to understand the various topics and terminologies used in Foundation Engineering.

This course will be helpful for Practicing Engineers, Consultants, Undergraduate and Post Graduate students, Researchers, Industry Specialist, Lab Instructors and wide array of Geo technical Design Engineers.

The Course covers relevant topics from Foundation Engineering and gives you an insight on various topics in detail.

This course addresses various types of Pile foundation, Classification of Pile foundation, Pile load capacity in compression, Pile in Granular soils (sand), Piles in Clay, Numericals on Pile Foundation, Group action of Piles, free-standing Pile, Ultimate load capacity of pile group, Pile Group in Sand and clay, Numericals on Pile Group in Sand and clay, Group Efficiency of Piles, Group Settlement Ratio, Settlement of Pile Group in clay, Settlement of Pile Group in Sand, Numericals on Settlement of pile group.

Brief on Pile Foundation:

Pile foundations are deep foundations. They are formed by long, slender, columnar elements typically made from steel or reinforced concrete, or sometimes timber. A foundation is described as 'piled' when its depth is more than three times its breadth. Atkinson, 2007.

Who this course is for:

The UG, PG, Research Scholars, Consulting Geotechnical Engineers, Industry specialist, Practicing Engineers, and Faculty members from different institutions can enrolled in course to get an insight on aspects of Pile foundation