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About Drip Course and The course Instructor!

• Must Read - Important Information About the Course

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)1

• Meet Your Instructor – Dr. Ahmed ElMouchi, PhD, PEng

Course Content

• 0- Course Content

• Recommended Four-Week Learning Strategy!

Chapter (1): Introduction

• 1 - Introduction

Chapter (2): Case History

• 2 - Case History

Chapter (3): Three Failure Modes

• (3a) General Shear Failure

• (3b) Local Shear Failure

• (3c) Punching Shear Failure4

• (3d) Determine Failure Type

Chapter (4): General Bearing Capacity Equation

• (4a) Three Components of Bearing Capacity

• (4b) Bearing Capacity Equation (CFEM - CSA S6-19 - AASHTO - ECB)

• (4c) Bearing Capacity Factors2

• (4d) Shape Factor

• (4e) Depth Factor2

• (4f) Example 1 - Covers "Bearing Capacity Factor - Depth Factor - Shape Factor"3

• (4g) Inclination Factors

• (4h) Example 2 - Covers "Inclination Factor"

• (4i) Surface Slope

• (4j) Example 3 - Covers Surface Slope.mp4

• (4k) Base Inclination

Chapter (5): Drained Vs Undrained

• 5 - Drained Vs Undrained2

Chapter (6): Influence of Ground Water

• (6a) CFEM and CSA S6-19

• (6b) AASHTO

• (6c) Example 4 - Covers "Effect of GWT on Bearing Capacity"5

Chapter (7): Eccentric Forces and Moments (4 Videos)

• (7a) CFEM (Allowable Stress Design)

• (7b) AASHTO and CSA (LRFD)

• (7c) Stress Calculations

• (7d) Example 5 - Covers "Eccentricity Effect"

Chapter (8): Consideration for Footings on Slopes

• (8a) Introduction - AASHTO

• (8b) Footings on Slope

• (8c) Example 6 - Covers "Footings on Slopes"

• (8d) Recall Footing on Sloped Ground CFEM

• (8e) Footing Adjacent to Slope

• (8f) Example 7 - Covers "Footing Adjacent to Slope"

Chapter (9): Consideration for Punching and Local Shear

• (9a) Introduction

• (9b) Vesic Detailed Approach

• (9c) AASHTOO Simplified Approach

• (9d) Example 8 - Covers "Vesic Detailed Approach"2

Chapter (10): Two Layer System

• (10a) AASHTO - H critical Determination

• (10b) Undrained - Case (1)

• (10c) Example 9 - Covers "Undrained Case (1)"

• (10d) Undrained - Case (2)

• (10e) Example 10 - Covers "Undrained Case (2)"

• (10f) Drained Condition

• (10g) Example 11 - Covers "Drained Condition"

Chapter (11): Closely Spaced Footings

• (11a) No Overlap

• (11b) Passive Zones Just Overlap

• (11c) Transition and Passive Zone Size Reduced

• (11d) Very Close Footings

Chapter (12): Bearing Capacity from SPT and CPT

• (12a) CFEM - Bearing Capacity from SPT

• (12b) AASHTO - Bearing Capacity from SPT

• (12c) CFEM - Bearing Capacity from CPT

• (12d) AASHTO - Bearing Capacity from CPT

Chapter (13): Allowable Bearing Capacity

• (13a) Uncertainties in Geotechnical Engineering

• (13b) Commonly Used Values for Factor of Safety FOS2

• (13c) CFEM - Qall 3

Chapter (14): Factored Bearing Resistance

• (14a) Limit State Design

• (14b) Geotechnical Resistance Factors - AASHTO and CFEM

• (14c) CSA S6-19 - Geotechnical Resistance Factors

Chapter (15): Horizontal Resistance - Check Against Sliding

• (15a) Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code - CSA S6-19

• (15b) AASHTO - Cohesionless Soils

• (15c) AASHTO - Cohesive Soils2

Chapter (16): Bearing Capacity on Rocks

• (16a) Failure Modes

• (16b) Methods for Bearing Capacity on rock

• (16c) Core Strength Method

Chapter (17): Typical Values for Preliminary Design Bearing Pressures

• (17a) Cohesionless Soil - CFEM

• (17b) Cohesionless AASHTO

• (17c) Cohesive Soils - CFEM

• (17d) Cohesive Soils AASHTO

• (17e) Rock - CFEM

• (17f) Rock - AASHTO

• (17g) Problematic Soils 2

Chapter (18): Geotechnical-Structure Cycle

• 18- Geotechnical-Structure Cycle3