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Foundation Excavation: How much larger than the RCC footing?
I don't know of any code which defines this, but a one meter "working perimeter" around the footing is probably more than enough.
Regarding the slope of the excavation walls, that's trickier to defin …
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why are foundations designed at SLS
And it's not as if foundations have no factor of safety. In fact, theirs is usually the highest safety factor in the entire structure. … Concrete structures (other than their foundations) usually have a total safety factor of around 2, and steel structures of around 1.7. …
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How to model elastic support in FEM?
Foundations aren't my specialty, so I can't even say how significant the correction equation is. …
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Building Uplift due to water pressure
You can use pile foundations, where the piles dig deep into the soil and resist the uplift. …