Ground Improvement

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Free Online Course: Ground Improvement provided by Swayam is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 12 weeks long. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from Swayam. Ground Improvement is taught by Prof. Dilip Kumar Baidya.

Overview
  • Ground improvement is a very essential activity in geotechnical engineering when construction occurs in problematics soils and under difficult geotechnical conditions. The state of the practice for ground improvement technologies is ahead of theory. Most of the books on ground improvement focus on concept, application and case study and in a few books focus is on principles and design methods of ground improvement. This course will focus on both parts.INTENDED AUDIENCE : B Tech/BE Final year and M Tech/ME studentsPREREQUISITES : Final year B Tech/BE students with knowledge of Soil Mechanics and Foundation engineering, any ME/M tech students

Syllabus
  • Week-1: INTRODUCTION
    Week-2: SHALLOW DENSIFICATION Week-3: DEEP DYNAMIC COMPACTION
    Week-4: RAPID IMPACT COMPACTION Week-5: VIBROCOMPACTION Week-6: DRAINAGE AND DEWATERING
    Week-7: EXCAVATION AND REPLACEMENT
    Week-8: PRELOADING AND VERTICAL DRAIN FOR DENSIFICATION Week-9: GROUTING METHODS Week-10: CHEMICAL STABILISATION Week-11: SOIL NAILING AND GROUND ANCHORS
    Week-12: USE OF GEOSYNTHETICS IN VARIOUS GROUND IMPROVEMENT PROBLEMS