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Bearing Capacity Values of Different Types of Soil
Bearing Capacity Values of Different Types of Soil
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What are the bearing capacity values of different types of soils such as clay, sand, gravel, rocks etc.?
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Following table shows maximum bearing capacity values of different types of soils:
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4/5/2019 What are Bearing Capacity Values of Different Types of Soil?
Bearing capacity of soil is the maximum load per unit area. This is the ultimate bearing capacity of
soil shown in table. Dividing the ultimate soil bearing capacity by a safety factor we get the
maximum safe bearing capacity of soil for design of foundations.
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NeerajKhatri (https://theconstructor.org/author/neerajkhatri/)
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Dear Gopal, thankyou for this informative. I have an additional query. How does one deduce
the soil type (among the above mentioned types) by visual inspection or simple field tests ?
Giuseppe Pace
Review the Gopal first column, it’s wrong, the correct value must be: the tabla value divided by 10000
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correct
@Giuseppe Pace
1 kg = 10 N, so, 1000 N = 100 kg = 1 kN. So, value of column 2 is divided by 100 to obtain value in
kN/m2.
andanr123 (https://theconstructor.org/author/andanr123/)
Can I get step by step on how to find out SBC if cohesion=0.36 kg/cm²,angle of internal
friction=13,Field dry density=1.603,fmc=12%.
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