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BUILDING (CONSTRUCTION) REGULATIONS, 1956

DIAGRAMS—The diagram accompanying the text is purely caplanatory and form no part of the enacted regulations.

DIAGRAM

FOUNDATIONS ON COHESIVE SOILS

t

W

FOUNDATION PLAN OF BUILDING

In the following, the symbols shall have the following meanings:-

a. A b.

3 3 3

Þ

F

dimensions of any bay or mbjør portion of this building,

least dimension of Marrowest Individual feating.

kk. dimensions of ahy individual

footing.

least overall dimension of

whole building.

BUILDING (CONSTRUCTION) REGULATIONS, 1966

TABLE VIII.

Mazimam pressure on soil under foundations.

Type of soil under foundation

Maximum permissible pressure in tons per square foot

1

Rock (2) Hard sound rock, massive

(b) Medium hard rock

(e) Soft rock

Cobesive Solls (For individual

footings only)

(a) Atif clay

(b) Medium clay

(c) Soft clay

Intermediate Soils

Red Earth, Decomposed Rock, Laterite

(i) Compact

(1) Loose (dry)

(ii) Loose (wet)

Non-Cohesive Soils

(a) Gravel & Sand-gravel mixture, compact

(6) Gravel & sand-gravel

mixture, loone

(c) Coarse sand compact

(7) Coarse sand, loose & Öne

sand, compact

(*) Fine sand, loose

5

Made ground & II

40

3

1904-

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Value depending on material depth and age of fill, to be determined by bearing tests

permissible total load of any Individual footing.

L

bermissible total load on any bay or major þortion of the building.

Rock.

them.

+

*

f-wab.

#

Clay.

and

P

.ab. W

where f is the appropriate permissible soil-

pressure given in Table T

Peal and organic wils

In the above table, the terms used shall be deemed to have the following mannings:

the undisturbed rock mass whose minerals show no sign of decomposition.

a Ane-grained inorganic soil possessing sufficient cohesion when dry to form hard lumps which cannot readily be pulverised by the Angers.

(e) Stif clay, clay which can be removed by spading a fresh sample of which can be moulded by a substantial pressure of the fingers.

(b) Soft clap, clay which when freshly sampled, can be moulded under relatively alight pressure of the fingers.

Red Earth. the residual soil formed by decomposition of the rock mass,

in situ.

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