What is Building Foundation? and Explanation of foundation types.
Foundation: Foundation is the substructure of the building structure. The function of load transferring to the foundation is beam transfer the load to the column then column load transfer to the foundation then the foundation transfer the load to the ground is the process of foundation load transferring to the ground. Types of foundation: Shallow foundation Spread Footing Combined footing Strip footing Strap footing Mat or raft footing Deep foundation End bearing pile Friction pile Shallow foundation Condition- D < B where, D- depth of the foundation B- width of the foundation this condition according to the Terzaghi's theory. In this law what he tells depth is less than the width is called as the shallow foundation Spread Footing The spread footing is provided to support the individual column. Some time it spread the load to the larger area so is called spread footing because of spread footin...