Experimental investigation into load settlement characteristics of piled rafts in sand

• Main Author: Leong, Hazel Xueling.
• Other Authors: Teh Cee Ing
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering::Geotechnical
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45418
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

When the loads of buildings were not excessively large, shallow foundations such as rafts were preferred. However, in most of these cases, the foundation system would settle very much, and cause serviceability problems. To improve on this, Burland et al. (1977) first proposed the concept of adding p...