16-Civ-B19 Foundation Engineering
Worked solutions to 2 past sittings (2018–2019), 11 questions. Pick a sitting, or start from a topic below.
Topics across the sittings
Topics that come up in more than one sitting, taken from the headings of our worked solutions. A topic counts once per sitting.
- Shallow Foundations (2 sittings): December 2019 Q1 · December 2018 Q1
Questions by sitting
December 2019
- Question 1: Shallow Foundations — square footing under biaxial moment
- Question 2: Deep Foundations — driven 4 × 4 pile group in clay over sand
- Question 3: Slope Stability — Taylor's coefficients, mobilised strength and sudden drawdown
- Question 4: Retaining Structures — cantilever wall with a surcharge and a high water table
- Question 5: Deep Foundations — bored pile group in over-consolidated clay
- Question 6: Shallow Foundations — circular raft for a grain silo
December 2018
- Question 1: Shallow Foundations — Limit States and Bearing Capacity
- Question 2: Stress Increase under an Embankment and Plate-Load-Test Scaling
- Question 3: Pile Foundations — When They Are Needed and What One Carries
- Question 4: Mat Foundations — Types, Bearing Capacity and Settlement
- Question 5: Capacity and Efficiency of a 3 × 4 Pile Group in Layered Clay