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FOUNDATIONS IN BLACK COTTON SOIL
Black cotton soil swells during rainy season and cracks in summer due to shrinkage. These shrinkage cracks are 100 mm…
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PILE FOUNDATIONS
These foundations are known as deep foundations. A pile is a slender column made of wood, concrete or steel. A…
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ARCH FOUNDATION
Inverted arch foundations are provided in the places where the SBC of the soil is very poor and the load…
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GRILLAGE FOOTING
High rise buildings are built with steel columns encased in concrete. Such columns carry very heavy load and hence they…
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Foundations – R.C.C. FOOTINGS
There are mainly two types of R.C.C. footings: 1. One way reinforced footings. 2. Two way reinforced footings. 1. One…
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Surcharging
The rate of consolidation always slows down significantly toward the end of the consolidation period. The time between about 80…
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Combined vertical and horizontal flow
Carillo (1942 and Asaoka (1978) developed Eq. 4.2 to express the average degree of consolidation for the case of combined…
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Vertical Drains To Accelerate Settlement
Introduction All materials will undergo volume change when subjected to stress change and soils are no exception. Unlike steel or…
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The Janbu Method versus Conventional Methods
The Janbu tangent modulus method is not different to—does not contrast or conflict with—the ‘conventional’ methods. The Janbu method for…
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The Janbu Approach
General The Janbu approach, proposed by Nilmar Janbu in the early 1960s (Janbu 1963; 1965; 1967), and referenced by the…