CE 430, Foundation Engineering

Project Phase 3

The following sketch wich is superimposed on the boring plan:

Red line representa the outer limits of excavation and blue line represents the basement concrete wall
which is rigidly connected to the basement floor slab. The distance between the wall
(blue line) and the outer extent of excavation (red line) is 5 ft in all directions.

The subgrade for the basemsnt slab is at Elv. 125. Using the given skecth, and infromation from Phase 1
and Phase 2, complete the following tasks:

Excavation

1. Divide the surface area into grids of appropriate size (say 10 ft by 10 ft)
2. Determine an average depth for the grid based on the information from Phase 1
3. Determine the the volume of each grid by multiplying the surface area of the grid by its average
depth.
4. Determine the total volume of excavation by adding the volumes of grids obtained from step 3.

By the end of this task you will have an site where the bottom of excavation is at Elev. 125. The
slope of excvation at this stage will be steep and will call for special precaution which will not be
part of this phase of the project.

Hauling

1. How many truck load of a 25 ton/18 cy rear dump truck, will be needed to haul the excavated
material.
2. If the cost of moving soil is $50 per cy, how much will be the total cost of hauling the soils.

Basement wall

1. Using appropriate backfill material (https://constructionmentor.net/backfilling-foundation-wall-

2/), plot the at-rest lateral earth pressure digram for basement walls and calculate the active
force for North, South, East, and West basement walls.

Final Product

1. Report including Phase 1, 2, and 3 of the project.

Due Date

The due date for this project will be flexible and will range for Decemebr 10 to December 14. The sooner
you submit the project, the earlier you will get a presentation schdeuled. Remmebr that the finla
submittal will include all sbumittals in a professional format.

Any thing not clear, let me know.