Geotechnecal Engineering and Design of Foundations
| Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geotechnecal Engineering and Design of Foundations | 23 Nov 2025 | 27 Nov 2025 | Cairo, Egypt | $ 3,500 | Register |
Geotechnecal Engineering and Design of Foundations
| Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geotechnecal Engineering and Design of Foundations | 23 Nov 2025 | 27 Nov 2025 | Cairo, Egypt | $ 3,500 |
Introduction
- Geo-technical engineering involves investigation and engineering evaluation of earth materials including soil, rock, ground water and man-made materials and their systems, structural foundations and other civil engineering works.
- The practice involves applications of the principles of the soil mechanics and knowledge of engineering principles, formulas, construction techniques and performance evaluation of civil engineering work influenced by earth materials.
- The base up on which knowledge structure is built in Geotechnical Engineering is a through comprehension of the elements of geologic environment.
- Before the engineer can design a foundation intelligently, he must have a reasonably accurate conception of the physical properties and the arrangement of the underlying materials. This requires detailed soil explorations.
- This course enables engineer is to select the type of foundation, its design and supervision of construction according to different building codes.
- This course is intended for civil engineers who are interested in the area of design and construction for concrete foundations.
Objectives
The participants will be provided with detailed course material and will be familiarized with the suitable ways in geotechnical engineering and foundation design. The engineer will be familiar with any problem and its solution in constructing concrete foundations eight.
Training Methodology
This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.
Who Should Attend?
This course is designed for structural senior engineer, projects engineer and design engineer.
Course Outline
Day 1:
- Geotechnical Engineering – A Historical Perspective
- Soil Deposits
- Consolidation
- Lateral Earth Pressure
- Bearing Capacity and Settlement
- Structural Systems for buildings
- Foundations For Concrete Structures
- RC Walls
- Liquid Retaining Structures
- Concrete Foundations under Vibrations
- Why Geotechnical engineering?
- Branches of geotechnical engineering
- Introduction to soil mechanics
- Definition of soil
- Difference between soil and dirt
- Classification of soils
- Site investigations
- Day-end exercise
Day 2:
- Analyzing the subterranean rock and soil
- The moisture content and compaction technique
- Permeability and seepage characteristics
Consolidation and settlement characteristics of the underlying soil
- Shearing strength parameters
- Slope stability evaluations
- Ground improvement
- Excavation support
- Grain size distribution
- Atterberg limits
- Soil testing and compaction
- Consistency and plasticity of soils
- Determination of soil properties by laboratory testing
- Day-end exercise
Day 3:
- Definition of foundation
- Function of foundation
- Requirements (Functional)
- Classification of Foundations
- Shallow foundations
- Deep Foundations
- Isolated footings
- Combined Rectangular Footing
- Combined Trapezoidal Footing
- Wall Footing
- Raft Foundation
- Loads on foundation
- Depth and location of the foundation
- Zone of significant volume changes in the soil.
- Adjacent structures and property lines.
- Groundwater
- Underground defects
- Bearing capacity: modes of failure
- Alternative Foundations
- Pile efficiency
- Day-end exercise
Day 4:
- Architectural drawings
- Structural drawings
- Different structural elements
- Exercises
- Load distribution on the concrete skeleton
- Loads on beams
- Loads from slabs
- Loads on columns and walls
- Load on foundations
- Basic considerations in limit state design method
- Day-end exercise
Day 5:
- RC stairs
- Design of RC columns
- Short columns
- Long columns
- Unbraced columns
- Braced columns
- Types of foundations
- Shallow foundations
- Deep foundations
- Design of RC footings
- Day-end exercise

