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Ceu313 CT2
Ceu313 CT2
is 2.5 m. Determine the ultimate bearing capacity per metre length of the wall, using IS: 6403 (1981) recommendations. 9. A long bridge pier, 3 m wide, carries a load of 1640 kN per liner metre of its length. It is founded 5 m below the ground level on a soil whose angle of friction is 15 and unit cohesion is 38.4 kN/m2. The unit weight of the soil is 15.7 kN/m3. Check for the safety of the pier if the factor of safety is 3.0. 10. A rectangular footing 4 m 2 m exerts a pressure of 80 kN/m2 on a cohesive soil (Es=5.1104 kN/m2, =0.5). Determine the immediate settlement at the centre, assuming the footing is (a) flexible, (b) rigid. 11. In a plate load test using a 305 mm square plate on a sandy soil under a pressure of 150 kN/m2, a settlement of 8 mm was recorded: (i) estimate the settlement of a 600 mm square plate at the same contact pressure and (ii) what should be the size of a square footing if the settlement is to be restricted to 25 mm? 12. The following are the results of a plate-load test conducted on a c- soil. Load (kN) Size of plate (mm) Settlement (mm) 50 0.3 0.3 25 125 0.6 0.6 25 Find the size of square footing to carry a load of 750 kN at the same specified settlement of 25 mm. 13. A square footing of 3.0 m size, resting on a sand deposit with its base at a depth of 2 m below the ground surface. The total pressure at the foundation level is 250 kN/m2. The variation of cone penetration resistance, qc with depth below the foundation is shown in table below. Depth, m qc, kN/m2 <1.0 3000 1.0 to 3.0 4000 3.0 to 4.0 7000 4.0 to 6.0 3000
Determine the settlement of the foundation using both the De-Beer and Martens approach and Schmertmanns approach. What will be the actual settlement if the effect of rigidity of footing and depth of embedment is taken into account? Depth of water table is located at 1.5 m below the ground surface. Take t =18 kN/m3 and sat =20 kN/m3. 14. A footing, 2 m 2 m in plan, rests on a soft clay soil with its base at a depth of 1.5 m from ground surface. The clay stratum is 3.5 m thick and is underlain by a firm sand stratum. The clay soil having the properties of u = 0, cu = 50 kN/m2, sat = 19 kN/m3, Cc = 0.18 and eo = 1.08. Natural water table is close to the ground surface and assumes F.S. is 3.0. Using Skemptons equation, determine the net safe bearing capacity of the footing. Also compute the settlement that would result if this load intensity were allowed to act on the footing. 15. A rectangular footing, 2 m 3 m in plan, founded at a depth of 1.5 m below the ground surface. The variation of SPT resistance values of fine sand with depth below the ground surface is shown in table below. Depth, m SPT, Nf 0.75 1.5 8 40 3.0 28 4.5 32 6.0 42
water table is located at a depth of 2.0 m below the ground surface. Assume t = 18 kN/m3 and allowable settlement is 25 mm. Determine the allowable bearing pressure for the footing using
various correlations based on settlement failure criterion and shear failure criterion. Also report the safe bearing pressure against both the shear failure and settlement criteria using IS code recommendation. 16. Write the limitations in computation of settlement of footing. Also discuss the Limitations in settlement calculations under plate load test. 17. Design a R.C.C. footing to carry a column (50 cm 50 cm) with 2500 kN load. The allowable soil pressure is 250 kN/m2. 18. Design a R.C.C. footing for a wall 30 cm wide and having a load of 80 kN/m. The allowable soil pressure is 50 kN/m2. 19. Design a rectangular combined footing to support two adjacent columns (size: 40 cm 40 cm) at a distance of 5 m and carrying loads of 3 MN and 4 MN. The lighter column is near the property line. The allowable soil pressure is 400 kN/m2. 20. Design a trapezoidal combined footing for two columns (30 cm 30 cm) carrying column loads of 1.2 MN and 0.9 MN, if the spacing between the two columns is 4 m. Take allowable soil pressure as 200 kN/m2 and the length of footing as 5 m. 21. A raft (20 m 10 m) exerts a gross pressure of 200 kN/m2 at foundation level. The depth of foundation is 2.5 m. If the soil is clay (=0, cu = 80 kN/m2, =19 kN/m3), determine the factor of safety. The raft is for a basement. Use Skemptons equation.