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Foundation Box

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VERACRUZANA UNIVERSITY

Master's in Land Transport


SOIL MECHANICS

THEME:
BOX FOUNDATION

By:
Ing. Aaron Quiroa Reyes.

Date:
18/NOV/2015
FOUNDATION BOX
• The basements or underground spaces should be designed to allow for
substructure is used for various purposes such as warehouses of
storage or underground parking lots.
METHODS OF
CONSTRUCTION
THE METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION OF BOXES ARE:

Excavation supported by wood or stacked plates.

Excavation supported by a reinforced concrete diaphragm wall

built prior to the main excavation.

Bored pile wall constructed prior to the main excavation.


• OPEN BOXES
They are concrete piles that remain
open at their top and bottom
during the construction. The bottom of the box
it has a sharp edge. The drawer is buried
in its place and the floor inside is removed
por medio de cucharones de almeja hasta
reach the support stratum. The boxes
they can be circular, square,
rectangular or oval. Once
once the support stratum is reached, it is poured

concrete in the box (underwater) to form


a seal at its bottom. When it hardens the
seal concrete, the water inside the box
it is pumped out. It is then poured
concrete in the box to fill it.
CLOSED DRAWERS

• they are structures with a closed background and they

they are built on land and then transported


to the construction site. They are buried
gradually filling its interior on site
with sand, ballast, water, or concrete. The cost
the construction of this type is low. The
The support surface must be level, and if
it is not, it must be leveled by excavation.
• Pneumatic boxes
they are generally used for depths of between
50 and 130 feet (15—40 m). This type is required.
when a excavation fails to remain open
because the soil flows into the excavated area more

quickly from what can be removed. A


the pneumatic box has a working chamber in the
fund that has at least 10 feet (3m) of
height. In this chamber, the workers dig the
they filter the concrete. The air pressure in the
the camera remains sufficiently high to
prevent water and soil from penetrating into it. The
workers usually do not have discomfort
it is severe when the pressure in the chamber rises to
15 Ib/puig2 (100 kN/m2) above the pressure
atmospheric.
BOX SLAB DIAGRAM
drawer application
• Those drawers are used frequently.
as substructures for pillars of
bridges. The same constructions
they have also been used on land.

• When applied to foundations of


buildings, the drawers are almost always
circular, with a minimum diameter of
30 inches (75cm); the diameters
they can reach 6 feet (1.80m) or be
even greater.
DETERMINANTS OF A SLAB
drawer
• The effectiveness of a box foundation depends on
the magnitude of the column loads, of the existence
from a layer of support to which the
loads and the conditions of the soil and water.

• The drawers can be constructed with molds or


permanent or removable casings. The drawers are
excavate manually, by mechanical means or by some
combination of both methods.
CLASSIFICATION OF SLABS OF
Special Foundations:drawer

These are carried out when the land is very


disaggregated, subjected to vibrations, higher pressures
of normal or underwater foundations.
EXAMPLES
OF THE TILE
drawer
CONCLUSION
As we all know, when each work is built, it will be different because each
The soil or place where it develops will have its own characteristics and likewise will have
to propose a series of solutions for carrying out each part of the project.
This presentation discussed a type of foundation known as the box slab.
As we have already discussed, it has a series of particularities among which
we can highlight that it is a foundation that provides stability to the structure
through reinforced concrete walls and slabs, which can be beneficial as it can
reduce the cost of the work since in this type of foundation it is possible to anchor
directly to the lower slab the reinforcements that will support and stiffen the
superior structure.
The main situations in which this type of foundation can be developed are
when soils with very low resistance are present or that the levels of
high groundwater levels in the soil.
Another option when building with this type of foundation is that you
you can take advantage of the available space as a basement or in any case as
a parking lot, allowing this to generate income for the owner.

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