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The load-bearing wall of a single-storey

building is to be supported on a wide
reinforced strip foundation.
A site investigation has revealed loose-tomedium granular soils from ground level

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to some considerable depth. The soil is

variable with

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a safe bearing capacity

ranging from 75125 kN/m2. Also some

soft spots were identied,

where the

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bearing capacity could not be relied upon.

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The building could be supported on ground

beams and piles taken down to a rm
base, but in this case the solution chosen is to design a wide reinforced strip foundation
capable of spanning across a soft area of nominal width.
To minimize differential settlements and allow for the soft areas, the allowable bearing
pressure will be limited to na = 50 kN/m2 throughout. Soft spots encountered during
construction will be removed and replaced with lean mix concrete; additionally, the footing
will be designed to span 2.5 m across anticipated depressions. This value has been derived
from the guidance for local depressions given later on raft foundations. The ground oor
slab is designed to be suspended, although it will be cast using the ground as permanent
formwork.
Loadings

If the foundations and superstructure are being designed to limit state principles, loads
should be kept as separate unfactored characteristic dead and imposed values (as above),
both for foundation bearing pressure design and for serviceability checks. The loads should
then be factored up for the design of individual members at the ultimate limit state as
usual.
For foundations under dead and imposed loads only, factoring up loads for reinforcement
design is best done by selecting an average partial load factor, P, to cover both dead and
imposed superstructure loads from Fig. 11.22 (this is a copy of Fig. 11.20 Reinforced

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Fig. 11.22 Combined partial safety factor for dead + imposed loads.

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FOUNDATIONS

(134) PILES (61)

WATERPROOFING (58) STRUCTURES (57)
SOILS (47) FOOTINGS (30) SITE EXPLORATION
(30) BUILDING (29) PAD FOUNDATIONS (18) STRIP
From Fig. 11.22, the combined partial safety factor for superstructure loads is P = 1.46.

FOUNDATIONS

(18)

CONCRETE

(15)

RAFT

FOUNDATIONS (14) DRILLED PIER FOUNDATIONS (13)

Weight of base and backll, f = average density depth

RETAINING WALLS (10) EXCAVATIONS (9) SURFACE

= 20 0.9
= 18.0 kN/m2
This is all dead load, thus the combined partial load factor for foundation loads, F = 1.4.
Sizing of foundation width
New ground levels are similar to existing ones, thus the (weight of the) new foundation
imposes no additional surcharge, and may be ignored.
The minimum foundation width is given by

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1 comentarios:
sathya said...
really helpful...sharp and to the point
April 2, 2015 at 10:39 PM

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