UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
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  CEE 523 Advanced Foundations CEE 366 Basic Soil Mechanics
MWF 2:30 - 3:20 PM, More Hall 220
  Instructor
Pedro Arduino
Office: 263 Wilcox Hall
Phone: 543-6777
email: parduino@u.washington.edu 		Office Hours
MWF 3:30 - 4:30PM
  Course Description
Soil and site investigation; bearing capacity, settlement, and construction considerations of shallow foundations and deep foundations
  Prerequisites
  • CEE 521
  • CEE 522
  • or instructor permission
  Textbook
  • Canadian Foundation Engineering Handbook, Third Edition, (1993)

Additional References

  • Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice, Third Edition Terzaghi, Peck, and Mesri, (1996)
  • Foundation Engineering Handbook, Second Edition, Fang, (1991)
  • NAVFAC Design Manuals DM 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
  • Soil Mechanics, Perloff and Baron, (1976)
  • Principles of Foundation Engineering,4th Ed., Das (1998)
  • Pile Foundation in Eng. Practice, Prakash and Sharma (1990)
  • Foundation Analysis and Design, 5th Ed., Bowles, J.E., (1996)
  • Foundation Desing, Principles and Practices, Coduto, D. P., (1994)
 
  Syllabus
 
  • Course Syllabus

      Topic Lectures
    1 Introduction, philosofy
    1
    2 Subsurface Exploration & In-situ testing
    5
    3 Shallow Foundations
    Generalities, Types
    General Bearing Capacity
    Upper/Lower Bound Solutions
    Limit Analysis solutions
    Elastic Stress Distribution
    Settlements
    11
    4

    Deep Foundations
    Generalities, Types
    Pile Capacity
    Pile Load Tests
    Pile Settlements
    Pile groups
    Laterally Loaded Piles

    11

    •   Grading
    Homeworks/quizzes 30%
    Midterm 30%
    Final 40%
      Tutorials and Handouts
     

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    *All homework due at beginning of class one week after it is assigned unless otherwise announced. Late homework gets half credit. Unannounced quizzes are always a possibility.