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N-GEO\OBJ.PM5 890890 GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
- Skempton’s equations give the ............ bearing capacity of ............ footings founded in
purely cohesive soils. - Skempton’s equations do not suffer from the limitation that the footings must be shal-
low (Df/b ≤ 1). True/False. - Brinch Hansen’s theory of bearing capacity gives better results for cohesive soils rather
than for cohesionless soils when compared with Terzaghi’s theory. True/False - Net ultimate bearing capacity of a footing in purely cohesive soil is reduced by about
50% if the water table rises to the ground surface. True/False. - Abbet’s improved method of plotting is used for plotting the results of a ............ test.
- Size effects in plate load tests are more important in the case of ............ soils.
- Standard penetration Test is commonly used for cohesionless soils. True/False
- Standard penetration test results for a cohesionless soil are correlated to its ............ and
............. - In the case of cohesionless soils, invariably the ............ criterion for the allowable bear-
ing pressure governs the design. - Pile foundation is one of the type of ............ foundation.
- When the weight of the soil excavated to place the foundation equals the total weight of
the structure the foundation is said to be a ............ foundation. - When the area of all the footings covers more than fifty percent of the area of the struc-
ture, a ............ foundation is considered more suitable. - For ordinary buildings, dead load plus half of the live load is referred to as the ............
load for the column. - Useful width concept is an approach for the determination of the bearing capacity of
footings subjected to ............. - When the footing of an exterior column cannot be allowed to extend beyond the adjacent
property line, either a ............ footing or a ............ footing may be used. - When the allowable soil pressure is low and the expected differential settlement for
spread footings is high, the best choice is ............ foundation. - The coefficient of subgrade reaction of a soil is defined as .............
- The modulus of elasticity of a cohesionless soil ............ with depth.
- The modulus of elasticity of a cohesive soil ............ with depth.
- Based on the mode of supporting vertical loads, piles may be classified as ............ piles
and ............ piles. - Three important materials used for piles are ............, ............, .............
- Perhaps the most complete dynamic pile driving formula is ............ formula.
- The ratio of the energy after impact to the energy of a pile driving hammer before im-
pact is known as the ............ of the hammer - One of the simplest of the dynamic pile-driving formulae is the ............ formula.
- There is a possible reduction in pile through liquefaction if a pile is driven into .............
- Dynamic resistance of soil is not much different from its static resistance. True/False.