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Soil
- Soil Characteristic
- Soil Classification
- Shear Strength

Foundation
- Types of Foundation
- Types of Shallow Foundation Failures
- Soil Bearing Capacity

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 SOIL CHARACTERISTIC
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Soil is a solid material on the Earths surface

that results from the interaction of weathering
and biological activity on the parent material
or underlying hard rock.

Types of Soil :

a.Cohesive Soil
b. Non Cohesive Soil (Granular)

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SOIL
CLASSIFICATION
UNIFIED SOIL CLASSIFICATION
SYSTEM

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SHEAR STRENGTH
Mohr-Coulomb Formula :

c tan
Value of C in granular soil is
zero since granular soil doesnt
have cohesion between
particles.

While value of in cohesive

soil is zero thus :
=c

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FOUNDATION
The low artificially built part of a structure which transmits the load of the
structure to the ground

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TYPES OF FOUNDATION
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Simple Stepped
Spread Footing Sloped Spread Footing
Spread Footing

Continuous Pile Foundation

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Combined Footing
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TYPES OF SHALLOW FOUNDATION

FAILURES
(Vesi, 1963)

For a sand soil ( > 36o ) indicates a dense sand and

general shear failure is likely occur. 29o indicates
a loose sand and local shear failure may be assumed.

General Shear Failure

Local Shear Failure

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SOIL BEARING
CAPACITY
Soil Bearing Capacity is the ability of soil to hold the forces from the
upper structure without undergoing shear failure or excessive
settlement (Stability and settlement criteria)

Soil bearing capacity (Terzaghi)

Continuous

Square

Circular

Rectangle

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Contd SOIL BEARING CAPACITY

Where,

= Ultimate soil bearing capacity(kN/m2)

= Cohesion (kN/m2)

= Depth of foundation (m)

= Effective unit weight when saturated or

total unit weight when not fully saturated (m)

= Terzaghis bearing capacity factors

B = Width or diameter of foundation (m)

L = Length of foundation (m)

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