CE 1305 FOUNDATION ENGINEERING

PART-A (10 X 2 =20)

1.What is floating foundation?

2.What are the general requirements of foundation?

3.What is permissible settlement?

4.The settlement of plate of size 300 mm on sand for a particular loadingintensity is 12.8
mm.Find the settlement of foundation of size 1.5 m on the same sand for the same loading
intensity.

5.When you provide strap footing?

6.Name the different types of raft.

7.Define the term negative skin friction.

8.What are the differences between a working pile and a test pile?

9.Defiene the coefficient of earth pressure

10.What are retaining structures.

PART-A (16 X 5 =80)

11.(a) Explain the two methods of site exploration in detail. (16)
(or)

(b) Explain any two important types of samplers. (16)

12. (a) (i) Find the dimensions of a rectangular footing to carry a design load of 1000 KN with a
FOS of 3.The foundation is at a depth of 1.2 m below ground level in a clayey soil of of
unconfined compressive strength of 120 kPa extending for a large depth. The width /length
ratio of footing can be taken as 0.8.Adopt BIS 6403 recommendations. (10)

(ii)What are the different components of settlement? Distinguish between them. (6)
(or)

(b) (i) A footing 1.5 m X 1.5m is placed at a depth of 1.8 min stratum of saturated clay
extending upto a depth of 5m from the ground level. The unconfined compressive strength
,submerged unit weight ,liquid limit and specific gravity of solids of the clay are 110 kPa ,9
kN/m3 ,40% and 2.65 respectively .Determine the allowable bearing capacity for the footing if the
factor of safety against shear failure is not to be less than 3 and consolidation settlement is not
to be more than 75 mm.The ground water table is quite close to the ground level. (10)

(ii) Discuss the limitation of plate load test. (6)

13.(a) Find the plan dimensions of a combined footing to support two columns 250 x 250 mm
and 300 x 300 mm carrying loads of 300 kN and 450 kN respectively.The columns are spaced at
4 m c/c.The first column is on the boundary line .The allowable bearing capacity of the soil is
150 kPa .If the second column is also on the boundary line.Find the plan dimensions of another
combined footing.(16) (or)

(b)(i) Compute the settlement of a rigid footing 2.6 m x 2.6 m carrying a load of 1800 kN
supported on a sandy soil, if a plate load test gives a settlement of 8 mm under a load of

320 kN/m2 .size of plate 30 x 30 cm. (10)

(ii) What are different types of raft foundation. (6)

14. (a) A group of 16 piles is to support a column load of 4000 kN.The piles will be driven in four
rows with four number of piles in each column. The piles are of 35 cm dia.and centre to centre
spacing is 1m both ways. What set value must be attained by the piles when driven by a single
acting 22.5 kN steam hammer with 90 cm stroke so that the pile group can carry the column
load. (16)

(or)

(b) A pile group of 3 rows with 3 piles in a row is made in a uniform clay deposit extending for a
large depth with an unconfined compressive strength of 150 kPa .The diameter and length of
the piles are 500 mm and 12 m respectively. The c/c spacing of the piles is 1.5 m in bpth the
directions. The adhesion factor can be taken as 0.4.Find the load carrying capacity of the pile
group by converse labarre’s formula and terzaghi’s approach. (16)

15. (a) Determine by Cullman’s graphical method, the active pressure on the retaining wall per
metre length and its line of action. Top width of wall as 4m and bottom width of wall is 10 m
height of wall 20 m .The wall retains sandy backfill which is inclined at 15® with the horizontal
at the top of the wall. The angle of internal friction of sand is 32® and the angle of friction
between the wall and the soil is 20®.Unit weight of sand is 21kN/m3 (16)

(or)
(b)(i) State the assumptions made in rankine’s earth pressure theory and hence discuss its
limitations. (8)

(ii) A 4.5 m high gravity retaining wall that is restrained from yielding retains sand of angle of
internal friction of 30.The water table is at a depth of 3 m from the top of the backfill. The unit
weight of sand above and below water table is 16 kN/m3 and 19.81 kN/m3 respectively. Find the
total friction on the wall per unit length. (16)

1.Define remote sensing.

2.Define spatial resolution.

3.What are the sensor systems used in remote sensing?

4.Define radiance.

5.What is geosynchronous orbit.

6.What are the uses of infra red radio meters?

7.What are the necessities for editing of spatial data?

8.What is buffering?

9.list some elements of image interpretation.

10.What is digital image.

11. (a) Explain with a neat sketch the components of a remote sensing system. (16)

(or)

(b) Explain the interaction of EMR with vegetation,soil and water.(16)

12.(a) (i) What are the types of platforms? Explain briefly. (8)

(ii) Digital image data formats. (8)

(or)

(b) With a neat sketch, explain the basic operating principle of a SALR system and also explain
the resolutions. (16)

13. (a) (i) Explain the orbital characteristics of satellites. (10)

(ii) Write a note on thermal sensor. (6)
(or)

(b)How the GIS and remote sensing is interlinked. (16)

14. (a) (I) Expalin the various components of GIS. (12)

(II) What is editing and what are the requirements for editing. (4)

(or)

(b) (I) What are the requirements and methods of image processing. (4)

(ii) Explain the geometric correction and spatial filtering techniques. (12)

15. (a) Explain the use of remote sensing applications in various fields. (16)

(or)

(b) (i) What are the advantages of using computers for image interpretation? (6)

(ii) Expalin the terms vector and raster overlay concepts. (12)