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Tutorial 3 - Design of Shallow Foundations

The document provides details and examples for designing shallow foundations for multi-storey buildings, including designing pad footings, strip footings, combined strap footings, and raft foundations. Design parameters, soil properties, and reinforcement details are given for sample problems.

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Tutorial 3 - Design of Shallow Foundations

The document provides details and examples for designing shallow foundations for multi-storey buildings, including designing pad footings, strip footings, combined strap footings, and raft foundations. Design parameters, soil properties, and reinforcement details are given for sample problems.

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Department of Civil Engineering, Curtin University

Geotechnical Engineering for Foundations

Tutorial (3): Design of Shallow Foundations for Multi-Storey Buildings

1. Design a square pad footing supporting 300 mm square column carrying a vertical load of 550 kN
(400 kN dead load and 150 kN live load) and a moment of 100 kN.m (70 kN.m dead load and 30
kN.m live load). The footing base is located at 1.5 m from the ground surface and the water table
is far below the ground surface. The underlying foundation material is a sandy clay (stiff to very
stiff) with the following properties: c’ = 50 kPa, ϕ’ = 5o, E’ = 30 MPa, ν’ = 0.5 and γsoil = 18 kN/m3.
Use fc’= 30 MPa and fsy = 400 MPa. [Answers: B = 2.5 m, t = 400 mm, d = 315 mm, use 9-Y20
bars in both directions at spacing = 290 mm]

2. Design a strip footing resting on the ground surface for a 200 mm reinforced masonry wall carries
a dead load of 50 kN/m and a live load of 25 kN/m and is supported by a medium-dense clayey
sand with the following properties: c’ = 5 kPa, ϕ’ = 30o, E’ = 80 MPa, ν’ = 0.45 and γsoil = 19
kN/m3. Use fc’= 30 MPa and fsy = 400 MPa. [Answers: B = 850 mm, t = 165 mm, d = 80 mm,
use SL92 steel mesh]

3. For columns (A) and (B) shown in Figure Q3, give a complete design of combined strap footings.
Column (A) carries a vertical load of 1650 (1050 dead load + 600 live load) and column (B) carries
a vertical load of 3580 (2240 dead load + 1340 live load). The allowable bearing capacity of soil
is 300 kPa, and the allowable footing settlement is 25 mm. The foundation base is located at 2.5
m below the ground surface and the water table is far below the ground surface. The underlying
foundation soil has the following properties: c’ = 100 kPa, ϕ’ = 15o, E’ = 25 MPa, ν’ = 0.4 and γsoil
= 18 kN/m3. Use f c' = 30 MPa and fsy = 400MPa.
[Answers: Footing (A): B = L = 2.8 m, t = 590 mm, d = 505 mm, 16-Y20 bars at spacing = 175
in one direction and 13-Y16 bars at spacing 220 mm in the other direction; Footing (B): B =
L = 3.5 m, t = 865 mm, d = 780 mm, 22-Y24 bars (both directions) at spacing = 158 mm; Strap
Beam: B = 500 mmm, t = 1320 mm, d = 1235 mm; 8-Y32 top bars and 7-Y32 bottom bars,
with 5-Y12 stirrups per metre]

300 ×× 500
500 300 mm
mm

Figure: Q3

4. Assuming that both the bearing capacity and settlement are safe for the raft foundation shown in
Figure Q4, conduct the structural design of the raft using the conventional rigid method. All
columns are 500 mm square and column loads are a combination of (2/3DL + 1/3LL). Use fc’= 25
MPa & fsy= 400 MPa. [Answers: t = 700 mm, d = 615 mm, reinforcement of long direction are
11-Y20 bars per metre (top) at spacing = 100 mm and 7-Y20 per metre (bottom) at spacing
= 166 mm, solution should be conducted for strips to get reinforcement for short direction]
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A G B I C
0.25 m

3.75 m
400 kN 500 kN 450 kN

7m
P O

1500 kN 1500 kN 1200 kN


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7m
PC e
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7m R x

1500 kN 1500 kN 1200 kN

7m
N M

4.25 m 8m 4.25 m
7m

T S
3.75 m

400 kN 500 kN 350 kN

0.25 m
F H E J D
8m 8m
0.25 m 0.25 m

Figure: Q4

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