Geotechnical Engineering

Special foundation problems, shoring and under pinning of foundations, swelling pressure of soils and foundations on expansive soils, soil dynamics and machine foundation design.  Reinforced earth.  Effect of excavation and pile driving on adjacent structures instrumentation of foundations and importance of observation of foundations behaviour.  Foundation failures and study of case histories.  Introduction to plasticity theory; stress and strain invariants.  Geosynthetics.