Location
Chicago, Illinois
Date
01 May 2013, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Abstract
The most economic type of foundations is shallow isolated footings. It is common practice to estimate settlement of shallow isolated footings without consideration of the influence of neighboring footings or loaded areas. In fact there is few, if any, available method to estimate settlement of isolated footings taking into consideration such an effect of neighboring loaded areas. Such an effect might be vital in a lot of cases. This paper presents a case history that shows the importance of such an effect. The case history in hand consists of 28 auxiliary buildings of an Electrical Power plant near Cairo, Egypt. A total of 175 boreholes were drilled to characterize the ground conditions in the site. The maximum allowable settlement was one of the major criteria of the project. Settlement analysis had to be carried out for each of the project building. In each building, the settlement was calculated under the center of each footing due to the load imposed from the footing and that due to the stresses on the surrounding footings of the structure. In addition, Settlement was computed for the case of single footing without influence of surrounding loaded footings as the case of the common practice in the geotechnical engineering profession. Settlement analysis was carried out by computing a profile of elastic stress increase due to all loaded areas at the foundation level. Settlement at a point is then computed at the foundation level by integrating vertical strains of the layered ground under the footing. The results of the analysis suggested that the effect neighboring footings could be important to the extent that necessitates the change of the foundation system from isolated footings to raft foundation in the light of the maximum allowable settlement of each foundation system.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
7th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2013 Missouri University of Science and Technology, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
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Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Shahein, Marawan and Hefdhallah, Ali, "Effect of Neighboring Footings on Single Footing Settlement" (2013). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 19.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/7icchge/session01/19
Effect of Neighboring Footings on Single Footing Settlement
Chicago, Illinois
The most economic type of foundations is shallow isolated footings. It is common practice to estimate settlement of shallow isolated footings without consideration of the influence of neighboring footings or loaded areas. In fact there is few, if any, available method to estimate settlement of isolated footings taking into consideration such an effect of neighboring loaded areas. Such an effect might be vital in a lot of cases. This paper presents a case history that shows the importance of such an effect. The case history in hand consists of 28 auxiliary buildings of an Electrical Power plant near Cairo, Egypt. A total of 175 boreholes were drilled to characterize the ground conditions in the site. The maximum allowable settlement was one of the major criteria of the project. Settlement analysis had to be carried out for each of the project building. In each building, the settlement was calculated under the center of each footing due to the load imposed from the footing and that due to the stresses on the surrounding footings of the structure. In addition, Settlement was computed for the case of single footing without influence of surrounding loaded footings as the case of the common practice in the geotechnical engineering profession. Settlement analysis was carried out by computing a profile of elastic stress increase due to all loaded areas at the foundation level. Settlement at a point is then computed at the foundation level by integrating vertical strains of the layered ground under the footing. The results of the analysis suggested that the effect neighboring footings could be important to the extent that necessitates the change of the foundation system from isolated footings to raft foundation in the light of the maximum allowable settlement of each foundation system.
