All construction conditions need to have an indicator below which the application of pile foundation prove to be cheaper compared to conventional strip and mat foundations.
Mat on pile foundation.
Raft or mat foundation.
2 standard commercial not special patent piles are used.
Types of mat raft foundation.
Engineeering projects a mat foundation is a thick reinforced concrete slab supporting arrangements of columns or walls in a row or rows and transmitting the loads to the soil.
A raft or mat foundation consists of a large concrete slab or a slab and beam system resting on soil or rock and supporting all the loads through a number of columns or walls.
Mat or raft footing columns.
Two way slab and beam.
This is a large continuous footing supporting all the columns of the structure.
When the raft foundation is supported on piles it is called a piled raft.
A mat foundation sometimes called a raft foundation looks like it sounds.
It is a mat of concrete that sits on or just below the ground.
Two common foundations are mat foundations shallow and pile foundations deep.
It is used to support storage tanks industrial equipment silos chimneys and various tower structures.
1 piles are driven not drilled.
If the cost of a deep foundation pile foundation is higher than the raft foundation we use to make the structure economical.
Plate thickened under columns.
When a spread footing columns can cover up to 50 of the foundation area.
Especially in the case of selection of pile foundation and conventional mat or strip foundation constructed in a deeper level to meet a soil layer with acceptable bearing capacity.
In this manual a pile foundation will be broadly described as one in which the following is true of the piles.
A raft foundation also called a mat foundation is essentially a continuous slab resting on the soil that extends over the entire footprint of the building thereby supporting the building and transferring its weight to the ground.
There are following types of mat foundation flat plate raft.
This is used when soil conditions are poor but piles are not used.