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Piled Raft Foundation Overview

Foundations support structures by transferring their loads to soil or rock with adequate bearing capacity. They are classified into shallow foundations for low loads on surface soils and deep foundations for structures requiring support from deeper, stronger layers. This distinction is crucial for ensuring structural stability and integrity.

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Piled Raft Foundation Overview

Foundations support structures by transferring their loads to soil or rock with adequate bearing capacity. They are classified into shallow foundations for low loads on surface soils and deep foundations for structures requiring support from deeper, stronger layers. This distinction is crucial for ensuring structural stability and integrity.

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Piled raft foundation

Foundations provide support for structures, transferring their load to layers of soil or rock that
have sufficient bearing capacity and suitable settlement characteristics.

Very broadly, foundations can be categorised as shallow foundations or deep foundations:

▪ Shallow foundations are typically used where the loads imposed by a structure are low
relative to the bearing capacity of the surface soils.

▪ Deep foundations are necessary where the bearing capacity of the surface soils is not
adequate to support the loads imposed by a structure and so those loads need to be
transferred to deeper layers with higher bearing capacity.

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