224-0907 – Foundation Engineering (ZS)

Gurantor department	Department of Geotechnics and Underground Engineering
Subject guarantor	doc. Dr. Ing. Hynek Lahuta
Study level	postgraduate

Subject version
Version code	Year of introduction	Year of cancellation	Credits
224-0907/00	1997/1998	1997/1998
224-0907/01	2006/2007	2012/2013	5
224-0907/02	2011/2012		10
224-0907/03	2013/2014	2020/2021	10
224-0907/04	2013/2014		10

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

Graduates of this course postgraduate studies must be able to design and assessing different types of geotechnical structures under different conditions.

Teaching methods

Individual consultations

Summary

The contents of this course builds on objects Foundations Engineering and Foundation Engineering in Difficult Conditions, which further deepens and applied to specific situations occurring in practical problems.

Compulsory literature:

Das, B.M. Principles of Foundation Engineering. Broks/Cole Thomson, 2004. 743 pp. ISBN 0-534-40752-8. Bond A, Harris A. Decoding Eurocode 7. London: Taylor & Francis, 2008. ISBN 978-0-415-40948-3.

Recommended literature:

Atkinson, J.: The mechanics of soils and foundations. McGraw-Hill Company, 1993

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.