Foundation Design and Analysis

This is the instructor’s resource site for ENCE 4610, Foundation Design and Analysis, at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.  Use subject to the terms and conditions of this site.

Syllabus (Current students: use syllabus on UTC Learn, for reference outside of UTC)

• Textbooks
  • Soil Mechanics, NAVFAC DM 7.02
    • DM 7.01 and 7.02 Combined, “Old Government Format”.  It’s not as nice looking as the first download, but if you are visually impaired and need it read to you, it’s better
    • Print Version
  • Arnold Verruijt, Soil Mechanics (online book is a little different from book in print)
    • Print Version
• Other Reference Material
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual.  A very useful guide and the basis for about half or more of the course.
    • Print Version, Volume 1
    • Print Version, Volume 2
  • YouTube Channel for Foundations
  • My Profile on Meet the Prof

Course Materials: the lecture slides are the lecture title link, other materials follow.

• 1: Course Overview
• 2: Shallow Foundations: Overview, Vesic/AASHTO Method (Part I) of Bearing Capacity Estimation
  • Verruijt Chs. 41-44 (print) or 40-43 (electronic)
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual 8.1-8.3
  • Bearing Capacity Spreadsheet
• 3: Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundations: Vesic/AASHTO Method (Part II,) Eccentric Loading of Foundations, Effect of Water Table
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual 8.4
  • Bearing Capacity Example Spreadsheet SL3
• 4: Bearing Capacity: Other Topics
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual 8.4
  • Buoyancy and Stability: An Introduction–background for floating foundations
• 5: Shallow Foundations: Total and Differential Settlement, Schmertmann’s Method
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual  8.5, 8.9
  • NAVFAC DM 7.01 Chapter 5
  • NAVFAC Schmertmann Example
• 6: Combined Footings and Mat Foundations
  • NAVFAC DM 7.02 Chapter 4
• 7: Lateral Earth Pressure Theory Review
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual 10.1-10.3
  • Verruijt Chapters 33-36 Print/32-35 Online
  • NAVFAC DM 7.02 Chapter 3
  • Coulomb Earth Pressure Coefficients (Spreadsheet)
• 8: Concrete Gravity Retaining Walls
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual 10.5, 10.6
• 9: Mechanically Stabilised Earth (MSE) Walls
  • Spreadsheet for MSE Wall Class Example
  • FHWA-NHI-00-043.  This is where most of the material in this section comes from.  With worked examples.
• 10: Sheet Piling: Overview, Cantilever Walls
  • NAVFAC DM 7.02 Chapter 3
  • Complete documentation on SPW 2006 sheet piling software, including download link and worked examples of cantilever and anchored walls.
• 11: Sheet Piling: Anchored Walls
  • NAVFAC DM 7.02 Chapter 3
  • Verruijt Chs. 36-38 (electronic) or 37-39 (print)
  • Fixed-end method for sheet pile walls, with documentation
• 12: Braced Cuts and Tied Back Walls
  • NAVFAC DM 7.02 Chapter 3
• 13: Overview of Driven Piles
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual 9.1-9.3
  • Another slide show overview of driven piles and drilled shafts
  • Pile Foundation Design: A Student Guide
• 14: Axial Load Capacity of Deep Foundations: Driven Pile Static Analytic Methods
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual 9.4, 9.5
  • Driven Pile Example
• 15: Static Load Tests; Pile Settlement; Pile Groups
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual 9.6, 9.15
  • ALP t-z Analysis Program (you may or may not want to use this, it’s embodied in the TAMWAVE routine now)
• 16: Pile Dynamics
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual 9.9
  • Introduction to Wave Mechanics in Piling
  • Simplified analysis of driven piles using the methods of Randolph, Dolwin and Beck (1994) and Kolk and van der Velde (1996) methods using the TAMWAVE routine, which includes generation of load-deflection curves, lateral load response using the CLM Method, and wave equation for drivability
• 17: Lateral Loading of Piles
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual  9.7
  • CLM Spreadsheet
  • CLM Report
  • CLM2.0 Class Example
  • Don’t forget that the TAMWAVE program also does this computation for simple soil profile piles (which is all the CLM method is good for anyway)
• 18: Overview of Drilled Shafts and Auger Cast Piles
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual 9.10, 9.12, 9.13
  • FHWA-IF-99-025 (ASD Drilled Shaft Manual)
  • FHWA-GEC-8 (LRFD Drilled Shaft Manual)
• 19: Drilled Shafts and Auger Cast Piles: Axial Capacity
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual 9.11
  • Drilled Shaft Examples Spreadsheet
• 20: Expansive and Collapsible Soils
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual 5.7
  • NAVFAC DM 7.01 Chapter 1, DM 7.02 Chapter 4
• 21: LRFD Methods
  • Driven Pile LRFD Example
• 22: Structural Design of Shallow Foundations: Shear
• 23: Structural Design of Shallow Foundations: Flexure
• 24: Structural Design of Deep Foundations
  • Driven Pile Manual (source of steel pile structural method, Ch. 8)

Other Stuff

• Mathematical Resources (because everybody needs help in math)
• Blessed are the Merciful: I keep getting requests to “go light” on the grading. This is how I did it myself.
• My Thoughts on Sleeping in Class
• In Search of the Lost Movado.  Bar hopping has consequences.
• Who’s This Idiot? That’s Me!  It’s easy to get trapped in the system.
• When the Pathfinder Gets Lost: some students like to “follow the lead” of someone else to get the course work done. That can have negative results other than those described in the syllabus, just like this example
• Taking the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal: many of you will recognise the name of Saint-Venant from mechanics of materials, but here’s another side of his life and work. With comment from former department head.
• What’s Really Important When You Hit the Field
• The Two Promises I Made to Myself
• Lessons from the Cotter Bridge
• Mirroring Our Creator
• A Fistful of Yuan–my experience in China