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Valliammai Foundation Engineering Question Paper

UNIT I

FOOTINGS AND RAFTS :
Part A :
1 State the types of shallow foundations
2 Define spread or Isolated footing
3 Define Combined footing and Raft footing.

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4 Define Strap (or) Cantilever footing.
5 Define Raft or mat foundation
6 Define Eccentric loading.
7 What are the circumstances necessitating combined footing?
8 Under what circumstances a rectangular and trapezoidal combined footings are adopted
9 Under what circumstances a strap footing is adopted
10 Where the Raft or Mat Foundation would be used?

11 What is the condition for selecting the critical section for bending moment of a spread or isolated footing?
12 What is the condition for selecting the critical section for checking diagonal shear and punching shear of a spread (or) isolated footing?
13 How the overall depth of an isolated footings are determined
14 What are assumptions made in the design of strap footing
15 What are the two methods of design of raft foundation as per IS
16 What are assumptions made in the conventional method of design of raft foundation
17 State the criteria for selecting P.C.C. and R.C.C. strip footings
18 Define differential settlement
19 Define Tilt or angular distortion
20 Define contact pressure.
21 What is modulus of sub grade reaction (Ks)

Part B :
1 State the Principles of proportioning of footings.
2 Explain the general procedure for designing the footing
3 Explain the Procedure for designing the P.C.C. strip footings
4 Explain the Procedure for designing the R.C.C. strip footings.
5 Explain the procedure for the Design of spread or Isolated footings.
6 Explain the Procedure for proportioning and designing of the rectangular combined footings.
7 Explain the Procedure for proportioning and designing of the Trapezoidal combined footings.
8 Design a trapezoidal Footing for the two columns shown in fig. Take allowable soil pressure as 200kN/m2
9 Explain the Procedure for proportioning and designing of the strap footings.
10 Design a strap footings for the two columns shows in fig
11 Explain the Procedure of conventional design of the raft footings.
12 The plan of a mat foundation with 9 column down in fig. assuming that the mat is rigid, determine the soil pressure distribution. All the columns are of size 0.6m x 0.6m
13 What are the Causes for the settlement of foundation
14 Define Differential settlement and enumerate its causes
15 What are the Effects of differential settlement
16 Enumerate the Remedial measures against harmful settlements.
17 Explain the different modes of contact pressure distribution for different nature of foundation soil. A footing foundation of

UNIT II

SHALLOW FOUNDATION :
1 What is shallow foundation?
2 What are the factors to be consider while designing the foundation.
3 Define Bearing capacity and Ultimate bearing capacity.
4 Define Net ultimate bearing capacity and Net safe bearing capacity.
5 Define Safe bearing capacity and Allowable bearing pressure. 6
6. Explain ultimate bearing capacity with the help of load settlement curve.
7 State the different modes of shear failure.
8 In what way the local shear failure differs from General shear failure.
9 How the effective dimensions can be calculated in an eccentrically loaded footing?
10 What are the Assumptions made in Terzahi’s Analysis?
11 State the Limitations of Terzahi’s Analysis.
12 State the factors affecting Bearing capacity.
13 What is the correlation between C.P.T. and S.P.T. values?
14 Define Settlement
15 What are components of settlement
16 Define Co-efficient of settlement
17 Define Immediate Settlement (Si)
18 Define primary consolidation
19 Define Secondary compression settlement
20 Define seat of settlement.
21 State the corrections to be made for the Settlement due to Consolidation
22 State the corrections made for the observed SPT values.
23 State the factors affecting Bearing capacity.
24 State Permissible Settlement as per IS code.