Rohit Singh 14.

528 2/19/2014

Piled Mat Foundations

Abstract:
In recent years need for Piled Mat Foundations has risen due to factors like high
groundwater or when base soil is susceptible to large settlements. Hence, a piled-mat
foundation which is a composite structure consisting pile and raft has proved to be an
appropriate alternative to conventional pile or mat foundations.
The current study discusses the need for Piled Mat Foundation and the advantages
they hold over other conventional foundations. Further, the problems pertaining to
unregulated design of Piled-Mat Foundations have been explored which arise due to no
design rules and standards for design. Also, design methods for design of Piled-Mat
foundations have been presented starting with conventional simple methods and further
moving on to more complex and efficient methods like the Finite Element Analysis.
Finally a real life example has been taken and studied and presented in form of a case
study.

Headings:
1. Introduction
2. Need for Piled Mat Foundations and Applications
3. Advantages
4. Problems faced in designing of Piled Mat Foundations
5. Design of Piled Mat Foundations
6. Case Study Construction of Piled Mat Foundation for a tall building in Niigata
City, Japan.
7. Conclusion
8. References



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References:
Principles of Foundation Engineering, Braja M Das
Foundation Anlysis and Design, Bowles
Geotechnical Engineering, V.N.S Murthy
Design applications of Raft foundations, J.A. Helmsley
International CPRF guideline, ISSMGE
Combined Raft and Pile foundation safety concept, Carsten Ahner and
Dimitri Sukhov
FEM modelling of Piled-Raft foundations, Andr Ryltenius