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TD3 Shallow Foundation

This document discusses the calculation of vertical stresses in soil from shallow foundations. It contains 6 problems: 1) Calculating contact pressure beneath different foundation types including a column footing, continuous footing, and mat foundation. 2) Determining dimensions for a trapezoidal combined footing to center column loads, and finding the worst live load combination. 3) Calculating vertical stress increases below columns situated apart. 4) Finding vertical stress increase at a depth below a mat foundation. 5) Calculating average pressure increase within a clay layer below a column footing using different methods. 6) Using the Newmark method to find stress increases below columns with different footing depths and a point between them.

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TD3 Shallow Foundation

This document discusses the calculation of vertical stresses in soil from shallow foundations. It contains 6 problems: 1) Calculating contact pressure beneath different foundation types including a column footing, continuous footing, and mat foundation. 2) Determining dimensions for a trapezoidal combined footing to center column loads, and finding the worst live load combination. 3) Calculating vertical stress increases below columns situated apart. 4) Finding vertical stress increase at a depth below a mat foundation. 5) Calculating average pressure increase within a clay layer below a column footing using different methods. 6) Using the Newmark method to find stress increases below columns with different footing depths and a point between them.

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Soil Mechanic    Dr.

 Sambath KY 

TD3 Vertical stresses in soil mass (Shawllow Foundation)

1. Compute the effective contact pressure q beneath the following foundations:


(a) An individual column footing is 0.5 m × 2.0 m × 2.0 m. The column load is 500 kN. Unit weights of
concrete and the overburden soil are 24 and 18 kN/m3, respectively. The foundation depth is 2.5 m, and the
water table is located at a depth of 2.2 m below the ground surface.
(b) A continuous concrete footing is 0.75 m wide and 0.50 m thick, supports a wall load of 100 kN/m. The
foundation level is at a depth of 0.5m below the ground surface. The soil has a unit weight of 17 kN/m3.
The ground water table is at a depth of 8 m below the ground surface.
(c) A mat foundation of a building structure is 1.2 m × 40 m × 80 m. The sum of the column and wall loads
is 800 MN. The foundation depth is 10 m, and the water table exists at 5 m depth below the ground surface.
The unit weight γ of the soil above and below water table are 17 and 20 kN/m3 respectively.
Also, compute the net increase in the vertical effective stress immediately below the mat centre.

2. (a) Two columns A and B are to be supported on a trapezoidal combined footing, as shown in the
scheme below. The footing is 0.7 m thick. The top of the footing is flush with the ground surface,
and the ground water table is located at a great depth. The vertical dead load on columns A and B
is 500 and 1400 kN, respectively. Determine dimension B2 so that the resultant of the column loads
acts through the centroid of the footing.
(b) In addition to the dead loads, columns A and B also can carry vertical live loads of up to 800
and 1200 kN, respectively. The live load on each column is independent of that on the other column;
that is, one could be carrying the full live load while the other does not. Using the dimensions
obtained in (a), find the worst possible combination of the columns live load.

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3. Two columns A and B situated 6 m apart. Column A transfers a load of 500 kN, and column B
transfers a load of 250 kN. Determine the resultant vertical stress increase at points vertically below
the columns A and B on a horizontal plane 2 m below the ground surface.
4. The contact pressure due to a mat foundation 10 × 20 m is 250 kPa. Determine the vertical stress
increase at a depth of 5 m below P at the foundation level, as shown in the figure below.

5. A column footing foundation is shown in the figure below. Determine the average increase in
pressure within the clay layer below the centre of the footing using (b) The Newmark method based
on the Boussinesq solution, and (d) The approximate 2V : 1H ratio method.

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6. Centres of two columns A and B are 3 m apart. Column A is supported by a footing 1.2 × 1.2 m and
column B by a footing 1 × 1 m. Column A is founded at a depth of 2.5 m below ground level and
column B at 1.5 m. The contact pressure on the soil under each footing is 425 kPa. Find the increase
in vertical stress at a depth of 9 m vertically below the centres of A and B and the point midway
between them. Use the Newmark method based on the Boussinesq solution.

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