EARTHWORKS

2016-2017 SPRING SEMESTER

Teacher:

Gabriella Varga, PhD – Assistant Professor

Budapest
17 February 2016
1. GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE

Credit point: 3
2 hours lecture / week
2 hours practical course/ each second week

Test:
90 min. on 22 of March on lecture
(90 min. on 6 of April on lecture)

Deadline of projects:
1 project: 21 April
2 project: 19 May
1. GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE

Admission for the exam:

Pass the test,
Deliver the projects,
Participate the lectures (50%) and the practical
courses (70%).

Contact information:
Web: oktatas.epitp.bme.hu Earthworks (change the language)
Office: Central Building-groundfloor Room No. 20
(Kmf20)
E-mail: gvarga@mail.bme.hu
2. CONTENTS OF THE SEMESTER
Types of earthworks

Steps of earthworks designing

Lateral earth pressure:

•At rest
•Active Rankine state
•Passive Rankine state
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Retaining structures:
•Types of retaining structures
•Steps of designing
•Additional technology problems
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Slope stability:
•Geometry of slopes
•Designing methods
•Geotechnical softwares
2. CONTENTS OF SEMESTER
Classification of earthworks materials:
•Material
•Compactibility Soil-improvement:
•Bearing capacity •Methods
•Frost sensitivity •Technologies
•Excavation •Advantages-disadvantages
 2. CONTENTS OF SEMESTER

Quality control:
•Methods
•Technologies

Dewatering:
•Methods
•Steps of designing
3. TYPES OF EARTHWORKS

Cut:

•Slope

•Retaining structure

•Ditches

•Subgrade of superstructure
(road, parking place,
industrial floor)
 3. TYPES OF EARTHWORKS

Fill:

•Slope

•Retaining structure

•Ditches

•Subgrade of superstructure
(road, parking place, industrial floor)
 4. STEPS OF DESIGING

Basic standard of earthworks: Út 2-1.222:2007

•General information, requirements, principals

•General rules of designing (geotechnical categories)
•Contents of plans and expert reports (geotechnical
report)
•Designing of the structure and the construction of
earthworks (suitability of soils, quality control)
•Slope stability
•Foundation of fills
•Retaining structures
4. STEPS OF DESIGING
Geotechnical categories:
1. Simple geotechnical enviroment and structures
(inclination<10%, no flood or internal waters, simple
soils, <2 m retaining structures, <3m cut or fill, etc.)

2. General task
(inclination 10-25%, no natural water, no special
soils, used structures and geotechnical technologies,
<6 m retaining structures, <10m cut or fill, etc.)

3. Special experts, high risk task

(inclination >25%, natural water, special soils,
special geological enviroment (cave, mine), new
technologies, special geotechnical problems, >6 m
retaining structures, >10m cut or fill, >1m dewatering
level, etc.)
4. STEPS OF DESIGING

Soil investigation:
1. Horizontal
Level of designing

Geotechnical Predesigning Construction plan

category
Soil layers

homogeneous inhomogeneous homogeneous inhomogeneous

I. 1200 m 600 m 400 m 200 m

II. 900 m 450 m 300 m 150 m

III. 800 m 300 m 200 m 100 m

 4. STEPS OF DESIGING
Ground investigation:
2. Vertical
(min. 5m, min. height of fill but min. 6 m, min. half of
the depth of cut but min. 3m under the road level)

Za≥2m
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Ground investigation:
2. Vertical
0,8*h<Za<1,2*h
Za≥6,0m

FILL
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Ground investigation:
2. Vertical
Za≥2,0m
Za<0,4*h

CUT
 4. STEPS OF DESIGING

Ground investigation:
2. Vertical
Za≥2,0m from the bottom
Za ≥ 1,5*bAH

DITCH, DRAIN
 4. STEPS OF DESIGNING
Ground investigation:
2. Vertical

Group of pile

Za≥4*Df
Za≥5,0m from the toe
Za ≥ 1,5*bg
4. STEPS OF DESIGNING
Designing of earthworks:
1. Slope
(inclination-stability, surface protection, dewatering)
2. Retaining structure
(geometry-stability, construction steps-stability,
materials, dewatering)
3. Fill
(inclination of slopes-stability, material, settlement,
consolidation time, surface protection, dewatering, top
layers of fill, technology)
5. Surface of the erathworks
(material, compaction, bearing capacity)

Quality control: materials, compaction, bearing capacity,

settlements
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!