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FOUNDATION ON ROCK

Dr. M. R. Sadique
Assistant professor
Zhcet, Aligarh Muslim university

Background

Often the foundations of multi-storyed buildings, bridges and dams are

constructed on rock mass, which is non-homogenious and discontinuous due
to fissures joints, faults and/or bedding planes with varying strength.

For this reason greater degree of conservation is exercised in the estimation of

load carrying capacity and the resulting deformation of rock mass.

Foundation are designed to be safe against these two essential requirement.

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Background

Weak rocks, particular decompose granite, Swelling shale, highly jointed

schist or slate required greater attention during field investigation.
When the spacing of joints is very wide [more than 5 times the loaded width ]
the bearing capacity of the individual footing or pile tip may be estimated as
that of an intact rock using the classical theories adopted in the case of soils.
 Heavily fractured rock with close spacing of joints may also be treated as
dense granular mass.
The main problem of rock mass is the collection and testing of large
specimens in the laboratory or in the field to estimate shear strength
parameters, c’ and ɸ or B and α or any other parameters.

Background

When a foundation mass is likely to fail in shear along a combination of two

or three planes of weakness, the stability is assessed by considering the
summation of shear strength to the summation of shear stressed developed
along these planes.

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A. ESTIMATION OF BEARING CAPACITY

Foundation
on intact
rock

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b. Heavily
fractured rock

b. Heavily fractured rock

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Bearing
capacity with
shape factors

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Ultimate bearing capacity with hoek-brown failure

criterion

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Bearing capacity of rock with inclined joints

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Foundation
on slope

Influence of eccentricity

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Stress distribution in rocks

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