Proceedings_18th-ICSMGE.txt (original) (raw)

Soil Mechanics II (Geotech Engg) lab Report.pdf

Muhammad Bilal, 2019

The following tests was performed by the students of Civil Engineering Department U.E.T Peshawar (the list of experiments can be seen in table of contents) under the supervision of Sir Engr. Zia Ullah. The main purpose of this lab was to investigate different types of soils through different tests and to compare them with the standards mostly ASTM.

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SOIL MECHANICS AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING

The geotechnical underground investigation constitutes a crucial stage for the construction of any building, especially those of large scale. According to the Brazilian legislation, any public work that requires a tendering process must be preceded by the preparation of a so-called Basic Project -which provides the necessary technical elements for the construction characterization and is under responsibility of the project proponent -to subsidize the submission of budget proposals by the competing companies. However, although the geotechnical investigation procedures for the formulation of the Basic Project are governed by technical standards, they can, due to imperfections in their implementation, imply on significant project changes during the contracts terms, that potentially lead to contractual additions for the adequacy to the new reality. Phelippe Daou bridge over the Rio Negro (in Manaus, State of Amazonas, Brazil) -the second longest fluvial bridge in the world -is an emblematic example that fits on this context, by the need of foundations structural system change due to nonconformities arising from geotechnical investigation stage during the Basic Project, a fact that generated an increase of over 60% to the initial cost. In order to corroborate to the importance of the correct and precise underground investigation during the Basic Project, this paper aims to present the geological and geotechnical conditions that resulted on the indispensable replacement of the infrastructure types, as well as to analyze and discuss the necessity of expanding the underground knowledge in those regions where there are few detailed and reliable information.

CE 341A-003: Soil Mechanics Lab

2020

Corequisite: CE 341. Students perform basic experiments in soil mechanics Course Objectives * Some modifications to schedule may be required to ensure that the laboratory sessions follow the lectures. # Indicates the experiment number in the laboratory manual (9th Edition).

Soil mechanics fundamentals by muni budh

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