CE533 Advanced Foundation Engineering Date of Submission: Tuesday 7th April 2012 Caution: Always convert the units

to the SI system for any numerical Remark: Assume any values required with justification

Assignment 5 Full Marks: 80

1. A mat foundation of size 15m x 10m rests on a general c- soil having c = 95 kN/m2, = 28 and unit weight of 18.5 kN/m3. The base of the footing is located at a depth 3m below the ground surface and is subjected to a centric vertical load. Determine the gross allowable bearing capacity of the foundation system. Find all the factors from expressions and not from tables. Use Caquot and Keriseld expression to find N. of the concerned foundation? (5)

Considering a factor of safety of 2.5, what would be and net allowable bearing capacity (2)

2. A mat foundation of size 12m x 18m is located at a depth of 1 m in a fully saturated clay stratum having an undrained cohesion 125 kN/m2 and a unit weight 19.5 kN/m3. What is the net ultimate and net allowable bearing capacity of the foundation? (2+2)

Consider a factor of safety of 2.5. Under such condition, what is the maximum superstructure load that the foundation can carry? (2)

In order to reduce the net pressure increase on the foundation soil to a minimum, what should be the depth of embedment of the foundation? (2)

3. A mat foundation of size 7m x 12m is constructed on homogeneous dense sand having an embedment depth of 2.5m. The average standard penetration value is obtained as 18. Under the applied loading, the maximum settlement of the mat foundation is observed to be 18mm. Determine the net allowable bearing capacity of the foundation. (2)

Following Meyerhofs recommendation, determine the ratio of the calculated and observed maximum settlement for this foundation. (2)

4. Following conventional rigid analysis, pictorially represent the stress distribution at the marked points for the mat foundation detailed in Figure 1. Consider the size of all the columns to be 200mm x 200mm. (15)

5. Considering the strip AGH'J' of Figure 1, perform a Factored Load Analysis to find out the BMD of the strip (5+3)

In the light of the above, investigate the applicability and limitation of the adopted technique. Support the investigation with logical and mathematical evidence. (5)

Suggest an improved methodology to overcome the observed limitation, supported by mathematical computations. Based on the suggestion, draw the BMD and SFD of the strip AGH'J'. (8)

With the aid of the flexural response of the strip AGH'J' as obtained from the suggested technique, determine the thickness required for the mat foundation from moment, oneway and two-way shear considerations. (2+2+6)

6. If the mat foundation describe in Figure 1 is located in a sandy stratum of depth 15m and having Es = 30 MPa and s = 0.3, what modulus of subgrade reaction should be considered for a flexible footing design. The depth of embedment of foundation is 5 m. Consider the settlement to be determined at the centre of the mat. (5)

Considering the total thickness of concrete mat to be 1000 mm, determine the net deflection, shear force and moment at the point P(2m,2m) due to the columns 3 and 4. The modulus of elasticity and Poissons ratio of concrete is Ef = 25GPa and f = 0.15.(10) y' A 1 2m 12 m D E 4 I' 5 6 J' y B 2 P(2,2) F x 3 C Figure 1 Q1=500 kN Q2=280 kN Q3=900 kN Q4=1450 kN Q5=930 kN Q6=220 kN Q7=1560 kN Q8=2200 kN Q9=340 kN

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