Table 6.

3 Presumed Design Bearing Resistances* under Vertical Loading

Supporting Compactness** or Presumed

Description
Ground Type Consistency*** Design Bearing Remarks
Resistance(Kpa)
Massively crystaline ignious and
metamorphic rock (granite, basalt,
gneisis) Hard & Sound 5600
These values are
Rocks Foliated metamorphic rock (slate, shcist) Medium hard and based on the
sound 2800
assumption that the
Sedimentary rock (hard shale, siltstone, Medium hard and foundations are carried
sandstone, limestone) sound 2800 down to unweatherd
rock
Weathered or broken-rock(soft limestone) Soft 1400

Soft shale Soft 850

Decomposed rock to be assessed soil

Dense 560
Gravel, sand & gravel Medium dense 420 Width of foundation(B)
Loose 280 not less than 1m
Non-cohesive
Soils Dense 420 Ground water level
Sand Medium dense 280 assumed to be depth
Loose 140 not less than B below
the base of the
foundation.
Silt Hard 280
Stiff 200
Medium stiff 140
Cohesive soils Soft 70

Clay Hard 420

Stiff 280
Medium stiff 140
Soft 70
Very soft Not Applicable

* The given values do not include the effct of the depth of embedment of the foundation

** Compactness: dense: N>30,

medium dense: Nis 10 to 30
loose: N<10, where N is standard penetration value

*** Consistency: hard: qu>400kPa

stiff:=100 to 200 kPa
medium stiff: qu=50 to 100 kPa
soft: qu=25 to 50 kPa, where qu is unconfined compressive strength