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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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ranging from 75–125 kN/m2. Also some soft spots were identified,

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The building could be supported on ground beams and piles taken down to a firm 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 floor 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, γP, 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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(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 γP = 1.46.

FOUNDATIONS

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CONCRETE

(15)

RAFT

FOUNDATIONS (14) DRILLED PIER FOUNDATIONS (13) Weight of base and backfill, 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, γF = 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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(see Fig. 11.23).

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Loading for spanning over depressions

Design Example: Trench Fill Strip Footing.

Where a local depression occurs, the foundation is acting like a suspended slab. The ultimate load causing bending and shear in the foundation is the total load i.e. superstructure load + foundation load, which is given by

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Longitudinal bending and shear due to depressions

Pressures....

Ultimate moment due to foundation spanning – assumed simply supported – over a 2.5 m local depression is

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Width for reinforcement design is b = B = 1200 mm.

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Suspended Ground Floor Slabs. Pile Caps and Ground Beams. Anchor Blocks - Description. Anchor Piles - Description. Steel Piles - Description. Timber Piles - Description.

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Thus vu < vc = 0.49 N/mm2, therefore no shear reinforcement is needed. Depression at corner of building The previous calculations have assumed that the depression is located under a continuous strip footing. The depression could also occur at the corner of a building where two footings would meet at right angles. A similar calculation should then be carried out, to provide top reinforcement for both footings to cantilever at these corners.

Fig. 11.24 Reinforced strip footing design example – reinforcement. Categories: STRIP FOUNDATIONS

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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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