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May 1, 2024 · However, its construction has been plagued by recurrent obstacles due to difficulties in sinking to the desired depth. For instance, it took more than 10 years to finish the caisson foundations for a five-span, 175 m long bridge in Lumbini, Nepal’s strategic road network (Fig. 1 ) because there were unanticipated hard strata within the ...
May 1, 2024 · Any high-rise building constructed on weak-bearing soils needs a robust, deep foundation system to prevent significant settlements over time. According to Wrana [], a pile is considered to be a structural element that utilizes its end point and skin friction to transfer the axial load of the superstructure to the soil.
May 1, 2024 · In all metro construction projects of India, large diameter bored piles are employed, with sizes varying from 1000 and 1500 mm. These piles must be designed for heavy loads. Hence, socketing into the rock is essential and unavoidable.
May 1, 2024 · Construction over Plastic soil can cause adverse effects on the performance of the earth structures, due to the low load carrying capacities of such soils. Many civil engineering structures like Buildings, Major and Minor bridges, Under passes, and Flyovers collapse and undergo crack formation in areas where Plastic soil with poor load carrying ...
May 1, 2024 · The focus of this paper has been to identify the mechanism of load transfer from superstructure to soil through medium of raft and piles. For this purpose, a pile raft foundation system comprising of square raft of 9m side and thickness 0.5m along with 9 number of circular piles at equal spacing of 3m center to center both ways and length 20m is considered in a homogeneous clayey sand of ...
May 1, 2024 · Footing on sloping ground becomes important due to limit of land availability, right of way, cost-effectiveness, and many more. In hilly regions, construction of footings on slopes becomes essential which require appropriate designs with a suitable factor of safety. It is found that research is limited on rigid footing resting on sloping ground.
23 hours ago · Etymology The present area of Johor Bahru was originally known as Tanjung Puteri, and was a fishing village of the Malays. Temenggong Daeng Ibrahim then renamed Tanjung Puteri to Iskandar Puteri upon his arrival to the area in 1858, after acquiring the territory from Sultan Ali. It was renamed to Johor Bahru by Sultan Abu Bakar following the Temenggong's death. The word "Bah(a)ru" means "new ...
