Syllabus

: Modes of occurrence of water in soils. Adsorbed water, capillary water, Capillary potential, Capillary tension and soil suction. Effective and Neutral pressures in soil Flow through porous Media: Darcy’s law and measurement of permeability in laboratory and field. Steady State flow solutions of LaPlace’s equation, Plane problems, 3-dimensional problems, Partial cut-offs, uplift pressure, consolidation theory –one and three dimensional consolidation .Secondary consolidation Ground water Hydraulics: Water table in regular materials, Geophysical exploration for locating water table. Confined water, Equilibrium conditions, Non-equilibrium conditions, Water withdrawal from streams, Method of ground water imaging.

Able to apply engineering knowledge

Problem analysis skill will be enhanced

Design/development of solutions for complex engineering problems

Able to carry out investigations of complex problems

1. Learn the different modes of occurences of water in soils.
2. Understand Darcy,s Law, effective pressures in soil, steady state flow solution of Laplace equations.
3. Application of the principles of 3-dimensional problems, partial cut-offs, uplift pressure and Consolidation theory of soil.

D.K.Todd, Groundwater Hydrology, John wiley and Sons , New Jersey, USA

H.M. Raghunath, Ground Water, Willy Eastern Ltd. , Noida, India

P. P. Raj, Geotechnical Engineering, Tata McGraw-Hill , New York,USA

C.Fitts., Ground Water Science, Elsevier Publications , U. S. A