List of top Civil Engineering Questions on Foundation Engineering

The effect of cohesion on a soil is to

The contact pressure distribution below a rigid footing on the surface of a clay soil is

A plate load test was conducted on clay on a \(300\) mm diameter plate. If the plate settlement was \(18\) mm at a pressure of \(100\) kPa, then the settlement (in mm) of a \(2\) m wide rectangular footing at the same pressure will be

If an infinite slope of clay at a depth \(5\) m has cohesion of \(1\) t/m\(^2\) and unit weight of \(2\) t/m\(^3\), then the stability number will be

A \(30\) cm diameter friction pile is embedded \(10\) m into a homogeneous consolidated clay deposit. Unit skin friction developed between clay and pile shaft is \(7\) t/m\(^2\) and adhesion factor is \(0.7\). Assuming end bearing is zero, the safe load for factor of safety \(3\) will be

In a Mohr's diagram, a point above Mohr's envelope indicates

The un-confined compressive strength of a soil in an un-disturbed and disturbed state is found to be \(100\) kPa and \(50\) kPa respectively. What is the sensitivity of the soil?

The width and depth of a footing are \(2\) m and \(1.5\) m respectively. The water table at the site is at a depth of \(3\) m below the ground level. The water table correction factor for the calculation of the bearing capacity of soil is

The earth pressure distribution on braced sheeting is based on