ADDIS COLLEGE
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
I. Preliminary Information
Course Name………….Foundation Engineering II
Course Number……….CEng4508
Degree Program………B.Sc. in Civil Engineering
Module…………………Foundation Engineering &
Engineering Geology
Pre-requisite…………..CEng3506
EtCTS Credits ………..5 EtCTS or 3 CRHR
Status of the Course…..Compulsory
Course delivered to……4th year Civil Engineering
Students
Academic year…………2nd Semester, 2019/2020
Mode of Delivery..........Lectures, tutorials,
assignments, class
works, mini projects and
field visits
Course offered by……..Tenaw Workie
II. Course Objective
 In practice Civil Engineers are required to
design and propose foundations for a
variety of infrastructure. The purpose of this
course is to provide the students with a solid
knowledge and understanding of the
principles governing the design and analysis
of foundation systems for structures and to
provide them with an opportunity to apply
the design procedures learned in class to a
"real life" foundation design project.
 To equip students with a sound knowledge
about sheet pile walls, pile foundations,
cofferdams and caissons, foundations of
expansive soils and environmental issues in
soil mechanics and foundation areas.
III. Competencies
The student shall be able to:
 Understand and formulate a foundation
design problem, able to compute the design
bearing capacity of deep foundations, able
to compute the settlement of deep
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foundations, able to analyze the forces on
and stability of retaining walls, and able to
develop the pressure and force diagrams
needed to produce shear and moment
diagrams for foundation design.
 Design deep foundations such as piles and
pile raft foundations.
 Understand & interpret the behavior of
expansive soils and be able to design
foundations on expansive soils and take
remedial measures.
 Understand the environmental issues in
geotechnical Engineering.
IV. Course Description/ Course Contents
 Pile foundations: classifications, properties,
pile capacity, negative skin friction, pile
group, pile caps, batter piles, and laterally
loaded piles.
 Introduction to piled raft foundations.
 Cofferdams and caissons (short exposure).
 Introduction to foundations of expansive
soils: characteristics of expansive soils,
Physical properties of expansive soils,
mechanisms of swelling, methods of
preventing heave damage, investigation of
cracked buildings in expansive soil areas
and the remedial measures.
 Environmental issues in soil mechanics and
foundation areas: interference of retaining
structures on the environments, effects of
burrow and fill sites on the environment,
effects of sanitary fill sites on the
environment.
V. Course Outline
1. Sheet Pile Walls
1.1. Lateral Earth Pressure
1.2. Structural Design
1.2.1. Uses & types
1.2.2. Free-earth support method
1.2.2.1. Cantilever sheet pile wall
 1.2.2.2. Anchored bulkhead 1. Arora K.R. (2006), Soil Mechanics and
1.3. Fixed-earth support method Foundation Engineering
2. Braced Cuts 2. Bowles, J. (1996), Foundation Analysis and
2.1. Apparent Pressure Diagrams Design
2.2. Structural Design 3. Budhu M. (2000), Soil Mechanics and
2.3. Stability Analysis Foundations
3. Pile Foundations 4. Cernica J. (1995), Foundation Design
5. Das B. (1999), Principles of Foundation
3.1. Types of Piles & Installation
Engineering
3.2. Vertical Load Bearing Capacity of a
Single Vertical Pile 6. Murthy V.N.S. (2003), Principles and
3.3. Pile Groups Subjected to Vertical Loads Practices of Soil Mechanics and Foundation
3.4. Settlement Calculations Engineering
3.5. Pile Cap 7. Teferra A. (2000), Principles of Foundation
3.6. Uplift/ Tension Piles Engineering
3.7. Negative Friction 8. Garg S.K., Soil Mechanics and Foundation
3.8. Behavior of Laterally Loaded Vertical
Engineering [TA-710-G813-1987-CP8]
Piles
3.9. Batter Piles 9. Radrigo Salgado, Engineering Foundation
[TA-7751-52374-2008-CP10]
4. Drilled-Pier Foundations, Caissons And
10. Tomlinson, M.J. and Boorman, R. (2001),
Cofferdams
Foundation Design and Construction, 7th
4.1. Types of Piers edition, Longman Group United Kingdom.
4.2. Ultimate Base and Skin Resistance
11. Coduto, D.P. (2001), Foundation Design:
4.3. Estimation of Settlement
4.4. Uplift Resistance Principles and Practices, 2nd edition,
4.5. Lateral Bearing Capacity Prentice Hall.
4.6. Coffer dams 12. EBCS 2 & 7
5. Foundation On Expansive Soils VII. Evaluation
5.1. Characteristics of Swelling Soils  Quizzes……………………………5%
5.2. Clay Mineralogy & Mechanism of
 Assignments………………………10%
Swelling
5.3. Swelling Potential, Swelling Pressure &  Tests………………………………15%
Free Swell  Final Exam…………………………40%
5.4. Preventive Measures  Min-Project………………..……….20%
5.5. Design of Foundations
6. Environmental issues in soil mechanics
and foundation areas
6.1. Interference of retaining structures on the
environments
6.2. Effects of burrow and fill sites on the
environment
6.3. Effects of sanitary fill sites on the
environment
VI. References
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