FOUNDATION ENGINEERING

Week 11-Week14 Assessment Task

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Problem 1. (8.14) Design a wall footing for a two-story office building of concrete block and brick veneer.
The building is 16 X 30 m in plan. The footing is 1 m below ground. The first floor slab rests directly on
the ground. Assume the floor dead load averages 2.0 kPa and live load 4.4 kPa. The roof is about 0.75
kPa, and snow is 1.0 kPa. Concrete blocks are 200 X 300 X 400 mm and weigh 4.2 kPa (wall surface).
Brick (100 X 200 X 90 mm) will weigh 1.9 kPa (wall surface). The undrained shear strength su may be
taken as 60 kPa. Hint: estimate wall height. Partial answer: B ~ 1.6 m

For Problem 1, use the last three digits of your ID number as decimal points for floor dead load, live
load, roof and snow. Example ID#123 for Floor Dead load = 2.123 kPa, live load 4.123 kPa, roof = 0.123
kPa, snow 1.123 kPa

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Problem 2. (9.4) What would the dimensions of the two footings of Example 9-3 (strap footing design)
be if you used e = value assigned by the instructor instead of 1.2 m that was used in the example?
Compute the volume of concrete for the two footings in Example 9-3 and for your value of e.

Use e as 1.(last three digits of your ID #), example e=1.123

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Problem 3. (10.13) Design a chimney foundation for the following data:

Chimney height above ground = 250 m

Bottom OD = 20 m Top ID = 7 m

Bottom wall thickness = 0.8 m Top wall thickness = 0.2 m

Weight above foundation including liner =104 200 kN

For wind use the values (factors such as velocity, pressure, importance factor, etc.) given in Example 9-4.
Take qa = 400 kPa and place the base of the foundation 4.0 m below ground surface; the base will be
backfilled. Use a reasonable estimate for y backfill. Make an approximate hand solution, also analyse the
foundation as a round plate. Be sure to make a neat sketch of the chimney and base, and show enough
dimensions that your work can be verified.

If the last two digits of you ID number is 23, then…

Add you last two digits of your ID to the Bottom wall thickness = 0.8(last two digits), example 0.823
And top wall thickness = 0.2(last two digits) , example 0.223