Soil Dynamics

By Prof. Paramita Bhattacharya | IIT Kharagpur

Learners enrolled: 139 | Exam registration: 2

ABOUT THE COURSE:

The course is designed for the UG students interested in advanced level of Geotechnical Engineering, PG students and research scholars of Geotechnical Engineering and other relevant specialization of Civil Engineering. The practicing engineers in the field of Civil and Geotechnical Engineering may also be benefited from this course. The objective of the course is to understand the fundamentals of vibrations, response of soils and foundations under dynamic loadings and design criterion of foundations subjected machine vibration and earthquake loading. For this purpose, theory of vibrations, response of single and multiple degree of freedom undamped and undamped systems under free and forced vibrations, dynamic properties of soils say, dynamic shear modulus, elastic modulus, damping ratio etc., liquefaction potential and design of machine foundations will be discussed.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: UG, PG and PhD level students and practicing engineers in the field of Geotechnical Engineering

PREREQUISITES: Geotechnical Engineering-I/Soil Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering -II/Foundation Engineering at UG level

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: All Industries related to Civil Engineering

Summary

Course Status :	Upcoming
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Civil Engineering
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	20 Jan 2025
End Date :	11 Apr 2025
Enrollment Ends :	27 Jan 2025
Exam Registration Ends :	14 Feb 2025
Exam Date :	26 Apr 2025 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

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Week 1: Introduction, Theory of vibrations (Single-degree-freedom systems: undamped and damped free vibration)

Week 2: Theory of vibrations (under damped system, logarithmic decrement, steady state forced vibration, rotating mass type excitation, Rayleigh’s method)

Week 3: Coulomb’s damping, Multi-degree of freedom system, Numerical problems on theory of vibrations

Week 4 : Duhamel’s integral, Wave propagation (longitudinal and torsional wave propagation in an elastic rod, longitudinal and torsional wave propagation in an elastic infinite medium, wave propagation in a semi-infinite elastic half space)

Week 5: Determination of dynamic properties of soils by laboratory tests (resonant column test, cyclic triaxial test, torsional shear test))

Week 6: Determination of dynamic properties of soils by field tests (seismic reflection and refraction survey, block vibration test)

Week 7 :Liquefaction of soils: liquefaction mechanism, factors affecting liquefaction, studies by dynamic tri-axial testing, assessment of liquefaction potential)

Week 8: Machine foundations (design criteria for machine foundations; elastic homogeneous half space)

Week 9: Machine foundations (lumped parameter solutions, design of foundations for impact type machines, other dynamically loaded foundations part-1)

Week 10 :Machine foundations (analysis and design of dynamically loaded foundations part-2)

Week 11: Analysis of pile foundations under dynamic loading

Week 12: Effect of machine foundation on adjoining structures. isolations of vibrations Online

Books and references

1. Principles of Soil Dynamics by B M Das, PWS KENT Publishing Company (available Indian Edition: by B M Das and Luo Zhe, Cengage Learning India Private Limited; Third edition)
2. Soil Dynamics by Shamsher Prakash, McGraw Hill Higher Education
3. Vibrations of Soils and Foundations by F E Richart, J R Hall and R D Woods, Prentice Hal

Instructor bio

Prof. Paramita Bhattacharya

IIT Kharagpur

Prof. Paramita Bhattacharya is an assistant professor in the department of Civil Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. She received Bachelor in Civil Engineering from Jadavpur University, Master of Technology in Civil Engineering from IIT Kanpur and Doctoral of Philosophy in Civil Engineering from IISc. Bangalore. She has approximately 10 years of teaching and research experiences in the field of Geotechnical Engineering. Her research area is Computational Geomechanics. She is working in the area of numerical modeling on ground improvement, stability of underground excavations and tunnels in soil and rock. She published more than 30 papers in international and national journals indexed by science web and Scopus.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.

The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).

Date and Time of Exams: April 26, 2025 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.

Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.

Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

Please note that assignments encompass all types (including quizzes, programming tasks, and essay submissions) available in the specific week.

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

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