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Deep foundation is required to carry loads from a structure through weak compressible soils or fills on to

stronger and less compressible soils or rocks at depth, or for functional reasons. Deep foundations are
founded too deeply below the finished ground surface for their base bearing capacity to be affected by
surface conditions, this is usually at depths >3 m below finished ground level.

Deep foundation can be used to transfer the loading to a deeper, more competent strata at depth if
unsuitable soils are present near the surface.

Types of Deep Foundation

The types of deep foundations in general use are as follows:

Basements

Buoyancy rafts (hollow box foundations)

Caissons

Cylinders

Shaft foundations

Pile foundations

1. Basement foundation

These are hollow substructures designed to provide working or storage space below ground level. The
structural design is governed by their functional requirements rather than from considerations of the
most efficient method of resisting external earth and hydrostatic pressures. They are constructed in
place in open excavations.

2. Buoyancy Rafts (Hollow Box Foundations)

Buoyancy rafts are hollow substructures designed to provide a buoyant or semi-buoyant substructure
beneath which the net loading on the soil is reduced to the desired low intensity. Buoyancy rafts can be
designed to be sunk as caissons, they can also be constructed in place in open excavations.

3. Caissons Foundations

Caissons are hollow substructures designed to be constructed on or near the surface and then sunk as a
single unit to their required level.
4.Cylinders

Cylinders are small single-cell caissons.

4. Drilled Shaft foundations

Shaft foundations are constructed within deep excavations supported by lining constructed in place
and subsequently filled with concrete or other pre-fabricated load-bearing units. Read more on
Drilled Shaft foundations.

5. Pile foundations
Pile foundations are relatively long and slender members constructed by driving preformed units
to the desired founding level, or by driving or drilling-in tubes to the required depth – the tubes
being filled with concrete before or during withdrawal or by drilling unlined or wholly or partly
lined boreholes which are then filled with concrete.

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