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Foundations: Shallow and deep
foundations, unsaturated conditions, heave and collapse, monitoring and proof testing
- Introduction
- Direct (Shallow) Foundations
- Solutions to foundations on residual soils – factors that affect the concept
- Particular conditions in residual soils
- Degree of weathering: topographic complexities and characteristics of profiles
- Trying not to make the wrong choice of foundation type
- Main demands for the guarantee of structural limit state conditions
- Differential settlements caused by heterogeneity in plan and depth
- Load tests on residual soil and settlement prediction on shallow foundation
- Experimental site and analysis of the loading tests
- Deformability characteristics evaluated from loading tests
- Correlations between in situ test parameters
- The specific application of footing settlement prediction methods based on in situ tests
- Methods based on SPT
- Methods based on CPT
- Methods based on PLT
- Methods based on DMT
- Conclusion on the methods for prediction of settlement of footings in residual soils
- Note on the strength for ultimate capacity evaluation in residual soils
- Method to calculate the bearing resistance of spread foundations
- Foundations on Unsaturated Soils
- Design considerations for shallow foundations
- Shallow foundations on collapsible soils
- Deep foundations on collapsible soils
- Mitigation measures
- Recent research and developments for dealing with collapsible soils
- Shallow foundations on expansive soils
- Characterisation by swell strains
- Types of foundation that are used in expansive soils
- Mitigation and preventive measures
- Excavation and backfill
- “Ponding” the foundation soil before construction
- Soil treated with a stabilisation method
- Other things that can be done to avoid or mitigate any damage
- Case histories
- Indirect (Deep) Foundations
- Pile design
- Piles in residual soils: Effects of installation process
- ISC’2 Pile Prediction Event in residual soil in FEUP, Porto
- Scope and steps of the programme
- The predictions
- Re-analysis of the results of the Static Pile Load Tests
- Design of axially loaded piles using the LCPC method
- The principles
- Applicability of the method
- Basis of the method
- On the limit states
- ULS (ultimate limit state)
- SLS (serviceability limit state)
- PMT (MPM) method
- Application of CPT method to the results of ISC’2-PPE static pile load tests
- Driving formulae and wave equation analysis
- Axial displacements in a single pile
- Geomechanics characteristics of geomaterials
- Evaluating axial displacements
- PMT method for predicting load-settlement curves of piles (Frank, 2008)
- Lateral pile loading
- Quality control and monitoring
- References
- Standards, Government and Official Publications
- Bibliography
Abstract
Many aspects of foundation design and construction in tropical soils are the same as those in sedimented soils, about which many text books have already been written. We have therefore tried to emphasise those aspects of foundation engineering on tropical soils which are unconventional, based on our combined experiences in many regions of the world where tropical residual soils exist.
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