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
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual.
  • Arnold Verruijt, Soil Mechanics (online book is a little different from book in print)
• Other Reference Material
  • YouTube Channel for Foundations
  • My Profile on Meet the Prof
  • Is the Best Place to Run Old Windows Software…on Linux or a Mac? Since some of you come to the table armed with a Mac, then discover it won’t run Windows software, this is for you.
  • Canvas Version of Course, available to those on Canvas

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

• Introduction
  • Introductory Video
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Introduction (slide presentation)
• Shallow Foundations: Bearing Capacity
  • Verruijt Chs. 41-44 (print) or 40-43 (electronic)
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual 8.1-8.4
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Shallow Foundations, Bearing Capacity I (Video Presentation)
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Shallow Foundations, Bearing Capacity II (Video Presentation)
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Shallow Foundations, Bearing Capacity (Slide Presentation)
  • Bearing Capacity Spreadsheet
  • Lower and Upper Bound Solutions for Bearing Capacity
• Shallow Foundations: Settlement and Other Topics
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual  8.5, 8.7, 8.9
  • Verruijt Chapter 9 (online) or 10 (print)
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Shallow Foundations, Settlement (Video Lecture)
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Shallow Foundations, Other Topics (Video Lecture)
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Shallow Foundations, Settlement and Other Topics (Slide Presentation)
  • Buoyancy and Stability: An Introduction–background for flotation in general
  • Schmertmann’s Method Resources
    • Another presentation of Schmertmann’s Method in Settlement Analysis; presentation is on pp. 3-6 through 3-10, worked example on 3-14
    • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual Schmertmann Example Spreadsheet
• Retaining Walls Part I: Lateral Earth Pressure Theory Review, Concrete Gravity Walls and Mechanically Stabilised Earth (MSE) Wall
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual Chapter 10
  • Verruijt Chapters 33-36 Print/32-35 Online
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Retaining Walls, Review of Lateral Earth Pressures
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Retaining Walls, Concrete Gravity Retaining Walls
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Retaining Walls, Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) Walls
  • Retaining Walls Part I: Review of Lateral Earth Pressures, Concrete Gravity Walls and Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls (slide presentation)
  • FHWA-NHI-00-043.  This is where most of the material for MSE walls comes from.  With worked examples.
  • Spreadsheets:
    • Coulomb Earth Pressure Coefficients (Spreadsheet)
    • MSE Wall Class Example (spreadsheet)
    • SFH Line Load Pressure on Wall Example, using theory from both SFH and Verruijt
• Retaining Walls Part II: Cantilever and Anchored Sheet Pile Walls, Braced Cuts
  • Verruijt Chs. 36-38 (electronic) or 37-39 (print)
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Retaining Walls, Cantilever Sheet Pile Walls
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Retaining Walls, Anchored Sheet Pile Walls
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Retaining Walls, Braced Cuts
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Sheet Pile Walls, Cantilever and Anchored, and Braced Cuts (slide presentation)
  • Basic Configuration of Sheet Pile Design Analysis — Pile Buck Magazine
  • SPW 2006 Sheet Pile Software
    • Complete documentation on SPW 2006 sheet piling software, including download link and worked examples of cantilever and anchored walls.
    • Video tour of the software
  • Fixed-end method for sheet pile walls, with documentation
  • A Simple Example of Braced Cut Wall Analysis

• Deep Foundations Part I: Driven Piles
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual 9.1-9.6, 9.8
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Deep Foundations, Overview of Driven Piles
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Deep Foundations, Driven Pile Bearing Capacity
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Deep Foundations, Driven Pile Settlement and Group Capacity
  • Foundation Design and Analysis, Driven Piles (slide presentation)
  • Another slide show overview of driven piles and drilled shafts
  • Pile Foundation Design: A Student Guide
  • TAMWAVE Program: Simplified analysis of driven piles using the methods of Randolph, Dolwin and Beck (1994) and Kolk and van der Velde (1996) methods, and includes generation of load-deflection curves, lateral load response using the CLM Method, and wave equation for drivability.  Includes links to a tutorial describing the program.
  • ALP t-z Analysis Program (you may or may not want to use this, it’s embodied in the TAMWAVE routine now)
• Deep Foundations II: Lateral Loading, Drilled Shafts and Auger-Cast Piles
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual  9.7, 9.10-9.14
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Deep Foundations, Lateral Loading of Piles
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Deep Foundations, Drilled Shafts and Auger-Cast Piles
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Deep Foundations, Lateral Loading, Drilled Shafts and Auger-Cast Piles (slide presentation)
  • Characteristic Load Method (CLM)
    • 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)
  • FHWA-IF-99-025 (ASD Drilled Shaft Manual)
  • FHWA-GEC-8 (LRFD Drilled Shaft Manual)
  • Drilled Shaft Examples Spreadsheet
• Static and Dynamic Load Testing, Expansive and Collapsible Soils
  • Soils and Foundations Reference Manual 5.7, 9.9, 9.15
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Deep Foundations, Static Load Testing
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Deep Foundations, Pile Dynamics
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Expansive and Collapsible Soils
  • Static and Dynamic Load Testing, Expansive and Collapsible Soils (slide presentation)
  • Introduction to Wave Mechanics in Piling
  • Vulcan’s Blow Count Specifications, a quick guide from one hammer manufacturer’s viewpoint on pile/hammer refusal and the blow counts that defined refusal
  • TAMWAVE: simplified analysis of driven piles using the methods of Randolph, Dolwin and Beck (1994) and Kolk and van der Velde (1996) methods, which includes generation of load-deflection curves, lateral load response using the CLM Method, and wave equation for drivability.  Includes links to a tutorial describing the program.
  • Class Examples for Expansive Soils
• Boring Logs and LRFD Methods
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: Boring Logs and Their Interpretation
  • Foundation Design and Analysis: AASHTO LRFD Method
  • Boring Logs and AASHTO LRFD (slide presentation)
  • Driven Pile LRFD Example
• My Review for the FE Exam Civil/Geotechnical Section

Other Stuff

• Mathematical Resources (because everybody needs help in math)
• The stuff you should have learned (or forgotten) from Statics
  • Vector Statics and “Old Coot” Statics: An Example
  • What is a Resultant in Geotechnical Engineering?
  • More About Resultants in Geotechnical Engineering
• 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