Design of Raft Foundations - by: Dr.

Hisham Arafat Mahdi

For Students of Foundations' Project- Faculty of Engineering- Sixth of October University
 Design of Raft Foundations - by: Dr. Hisham Arafat Mahdi
For Students of Foundations' Project- Faculty of Engineering- Sixth of October University

Compare the maximum soil pressures with those calculated according to the net
allowable capacity against soil failure and tolerable settlements (net allowable
bearing capacity).
 Design of Raft Foundations - by: Dr. Hisham Arafat Mahdi
For Students of Foundations' Project- Faculty of Engineering- Sixth of October University
 Design of Raft Foundations - by: Dr. Hisham Arafat Mahdi
For Students of Foundations' Project- Faculty of Engineering- Sixth of October University
 Design of Raft Foundations - by: Dr. Hisham Arafat Mahdi
For Students of Foundations' Project- Faculty of Engineering- Sixth of October University
 Design of Raft Foundations - by: Dr. Hisham Arafat Mahdi
For Students of Foundations' Project- Faculty of Engineering- Sixth of October University
 Design of Raft Foundations - by: Dr. Hisham Arafat Mahdi
For Students of Foundations' Project- Faculty of Engineering- Sixth of October University
 Design of Raft Foundations - by: Dr. Hisham Arafat Mahdi
For Students of Foundations' Project- Faculty of Engineering- Sixth of October University
 Design of Raft Foundations - by: Dr. Hisham Arafat Mahdi
For Students of Foundations' Project- Faculty of Engineering- Sixth of October University
 Design of Raft Foundations - by: Dr. Hisham Arafat Mahdi
For Students of Foundations' Project- Faculty of Engineering- Sixth of October University
 Design of Raft Foundations - by: Dr. Hisham Arafat Mahdi
For Students of Foundations' Project- Faculty of Engineering- Sixth of October University
 Design of Raft Foundations - by: Dr. Hisham Arafat Mahdi
For Students of Foundations' Project- Faculty of Engineering- Sixth of October University
 Design of Raft Foundations - by: Dr. Hisham Arafat Mahdi
For Students of Foundations' Project- Faculty of Engineering- Sixth of October University

When designing the bottom reinforcement of the raft, the value at the face of the
column shall be taken into account as shown in figure 12 below "section 1-1 and
section 2-2". Accordingly, all moments represented by the moment contours inside
the area of the columns should be disregarded.

Owing to the concentration of forces at the location of columns, it is crucial that

the soil bearing capacity shall be checked using the conventional stress equation of
Navier (equation 2) and not by the spring reactions determined from the computer
output.