Enabling students to acquiring professional knowledge and application in practice.

Acquired knowledge is used in the course Geotechnics and in the engineering practice.

Basic mechanical soil properties. Basics for foundation design. Selection of foundation depth. Basic foundation types and their properties. Specific foundation conditions: foundations on rocks, foundations on collapsible soil, foundations on expansion soil, foundations on improved soil. Spread footing: massive foundations, strip foundations, concrete pier foundations, steel pile foundations, common foundations for more piles, foundations grids and T-beam foundations. Deep foundations. Pile foundations. Caissons. Diaphragms. Foundation pits. Sheet pile walls. Retaining structures. Lowering groundwater level, protection of foundation pits from groundwater, hydro-insulation.

Lectures and auditory practice.