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It is also a usual practice these days to use mat foundation over piles to reduce settlements.įor this purpose, only part of the load is taken by piles. In situations, where there are soil deposits below hard layers, individual footings should be preferred over rafts.Ħ. We must be aware that the bulb of pressure of wide rafts extends to deeper layers than in footings. It is very important that when we adopt a raft foundation, we should carefully check whether there are any weak spots below the foundation.Īs the influence of the foundation is felt to a depth 1 to 2 times its breadth below it. In general, where settlements expected are small, individual strips and footings tend to be cheaper than rafts, which will require much more steel to carry increased shear and bending moments due to continuity.ĥ. In such situations, careful analysis should be made as to whether individual footings or rafts are more economical. In situations, where individual footings may touch or overlap each other, and it is advisable to excavate the full site instead of the ground under individual footings.
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Mat foundation is specified to bridge over pockets of weak spots in moderately weak soil.Ĥ. Whereas for footings only 25 mm is specified for the same allowable differential settlement of 18 mm (3/4 inches) for both cases.ģ. Thus, an allowable maximum settlement of 50 mm is usually specified for raft foundations. This parametric study is useful for deciding the suitable configuration of the piled raft foundation and designing it on the basis of various parameters.And also due to the stiffening effect of the raft and building frame.ĭue to continuity and negative moments, the bending moments produced in rafts tend to be less. For this purpose, a twenty storey building is modelled and analyzed in ETABS software and then foundation models with different geometrical configurations of piles and raft are prepared in SAFE software to analyze the behaviour of piled raft foundation under the loadings from the superstructure obtained from ETABS software. This helps in understanding the variation in total and differential settlement of the raft, maximum moment in raft and pile/raft load sharing ratios by varying the various parameters under consideration. The main objective of this comparative study is to investigate the behaviour and performance of the combined piled raft foundation by changing the parameters like raft thickness, pile diameter, pile length and pile spacing. The use of piled raft foundation for the high rise structures has increased recently because of its efficiency in reducing high stress concentrations, total and differential settlements of the foundation system economically. To demonstrate the analysis procedures, an example problem of a CPRF is solved using simplified method such as Poulos- Davis- Randolph (PDR) method and also by finite element software- PLAXIS which provides an effective computational environment to model the complicated interactions between various elements of foundation. The present paper details the procedure for the analysis of combined piled raft foundations by means of both simplified methods used in the preliminary analysis stage and finite element analysis used in detailed design. The analysis of a CPRF involves the calculation of the relative proportions of load carried by raft and piles and the effect of piles on total and differential settlements.
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Such programs without due consideration of the interactions involved in the piled raft system will lead to serious underestimates of settlement and inaccurate estimates of raft bending moments and pile loads. It is also common for the raft to be modelled using Winkler springs ignoring the effects of raft-soil-pile interaction. The piles are modelled using spring elements with the stiffness computed for a single isolated pile, ignoring the effects of pile-soil-pile interaction. The design engineers of piled raft foundations still employ structural analysis programs in which the raft is represented by a plate and the piles as springs. Presently three-dimensional FEM commercial programs such as FLAC-3D, PLAXIS-3D and ABAQUS are used for detailed analysis of CPRF considering the sophisticated interaction between various elements. The analysis and design of piled raft foundations shall take into account the pile-soil-pile and pile-soil-raft interactions.
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The aim of such a foundation is therefore to reduce the number of piles compared with a more conventional piled foundation where the bearing effect of the pile cap is ignored. In a combined piled raft foundation (CPRF) the performance of the raft in terms ultimate capacity, total and differential settlement is enhanced by the addition of a limited number of piles strategically located below the raft.