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Foundation & Footing Types in Construction

This construction video tutorial demonstrates the types of foundations or footings in construction.

Based on the transmission of load to ground, the foundation is mainly divided as Shallow Foundation and Deep Foundation.

Shallow Foundation: Shallow foundations stand for the foundation in which the depth of the settled foundation remains under the width of the foundation (D < B). Shallow foundations are usually defined as spread footings because they pass on the load of the super structure laterally into the ground.

Shallow Foundation can again be divided into the following types :-

a) Wall Footing, b) Isolated column/Column Footing, c) Combined Footing, d) Cantilever (Strap) Footing, e) Mat (Raft) Foundation

Wall Footing: This type of foundation operates continuous along the direction of the wall and facilitates the load of the wall into the ground. Wall footing is useful where transferable loads are small and inexpensive in dense sands and gravels. Under this type of foundation the width remains 2-3 times the width of the wall at ground level. Usually, wall footing is built up with stone, brick, plain or reinforced cement concrete.

Column Footing: Column footing is ideal for the depth in excess of 1.5m. It is also inexpensive. The base of the column is expanded under this type of foundation. Column footing comes in the form of flat slab and built up with plain or reinforced concrete.

Combined Footing: Combined footings belong to the foundations which are created common for two or more columns in a row. It is mostly suitable if the footing for a column may expand away from the property line. It is built up if the two columns are narrowly positioned and the soil on which the structure rests on contains low bearing capability. It may come in rectangular or trapezoidal shape.

Strap Footing: When it is not possible to expand an edge footing away from the property line the edge footing is connected with the other interior footing through a strap beam. Such footings are known as strap footing or cantilever footing.

Mat Foundation: A mat foundation stands for a combined footing which considers the whole area under of a structure and supports all the walls and columns. It is also called as raft foundation. Mat foundation is suitable on the following conditions :-

a) Permissible bearing pressure is low. b) The structure contains heavy weight. c) The site comprises of extremely compressible layer.

The mat foundation is again divided into following types:
a) Flat slab type. b)Flat Slab thickened under column. c) Two way beam and slab type. d) Flat slab with pedestals. e)Rigid frame mat. f)Piled mat.

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Foundation & Footing Types in Construction