Syllabus

Module I: Importance of Soil-Structure Interaction (4 hours)
Importance of Soil-Structure Interaction: Practical Significance and Importance of Soil-Structure Interaction, Soil, Foundation, and Interface Behavior, Analysis of Soil-Structure Interaction, Limiting Movements, and Criteria for Design of Dynamic Loading.

Module II: Soil-Shallow Foundation Interaction Models (10 hours)
Elastic Models of soil Behaviour: Winkler model, Isotropic elastic continuum model, Two parameter elastic models like Pasternak model and Filoneko- Borodich model, Time-Dependent Behaviour. Soil-Foundation Interaction models: Bernoulli-Euler Beam theory, Infinite and Finite beams, Infinite beam resting on Winkler and Pasternak Medium, Finite beams resting on Winkler and Pasternak Medium.

Module III: Soil-Pile Interaction Models (10 hours)
Soil-Pile Interaction: Long and Short Piles, Elastic analysis of single pile, Theoretical solutions for settlement and load distributions. Laterally loaded piles: Elastic solution of Laterally Loaded Piles on cohesionless and cohesive soils, Brom’s Method of Laterally Loaded Piles on cohesionless and cohesive soils.

Module IV: Machine-Foundation-Soil System (8 hours)
Vibration of Foundations: Fundamentals of Vibration, Free and Forced vibration of a spring mass system, Free and Forced vibration of a spring mass system with viscous damping, Rotating mass type excitation, Determination of Resonant Frequency and Damping ratio.Machine-Foundation-Soil System: Vertical and Rocking Vibration of Foundations.

Practical Significance and Importance of Soil-Structure Interaction.

Application of different soil response models and Soil-Foundation interaction models.

Application of the design principles of soil-pile interaction models under axial and lateral loading.

Application of Machine-Foundation-Soil Interaction models for the design of machine foundations.

At the end of the course, the students will be able to have an idea about:
CO1: practical significance and importance of Soil-Structure Interaction.
CO2: the application of different soil response models and Soil-Foundation interaction models.
CO3: the application of soil-pile interaction models under axial and lateral loading.
CO4: the application of Machine-Foundation-Soil Interaction models for the design of machine foundations.
CO5: soil-structure interaction problems and use them in the design of sub-structures.

N.P. Kurien, Design of Foundation Sytems : Principles & Practices, Narosa , New Delhi

E.S. Melerski, Design Analysis of Beams, Circular Plates and Cylindrical Tanks on Elastic Foundation, CRC Press , Florida, USA

L.C. Reese, William F. Van Impe, Single piles and pile groups under lateral loading, CRC Press , Florida, USA

G. Jones, Analysis of Beams on Elastic foundation, Thomas Telford , Great Britain, UK