Advanced Foundation Engineering | Makerere University Courses

Course Code:

CIV 7120

Course Credit Units:

3

Semester:

Semester 1

Year of Study:

Year 1

Undergraduate or Graduate Level:

Graduate Level

Academic Programs:

Master of Science In Civil Engineering

College:

College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology

School:

School of Engineering

Department:

Civil And Environmental Engineering

Course Discipline:

science

Course Description & Objectives:

This course aims at cultivating higher level insights in theories for foundation engineering and to promote critical thinking in designing and analyzing foundations. The course will cover classical and modern topics of foundation engineering for example dynamic pile driving equations. Objectives

To equip participants with information needed to design foundations at the state of the art. Participants will be equipped with abilities to evaluate bearing capacity and settlement failure conditions for shallow and deep foundations. Finite Element tools will be discussed as well as conventional design tools.
To equip participants with modern instrumentation for foundation design and correct selection of soil parameters for foundation design
To enable participants select the best foundation solutions for different types of Civil Engineering problems

Learning Outcomes:

On completing the course the student should be able to:

Design and analyse foundation systems using conventional methods
Design a budget and proposal for a Geotechnical investigation
Design appropriate foundation systems based on ground-investigation data and be able to select correct soil parameters for the designs
Select boring depth , location and associated laboratory tests for simple construction projects