Raft foundation

Published on: September 4, 2016 by Saad Iqbal

The word foundation is taken as the base of everything, the mind directly shifts towards the importance, safety related words that are associated in a must-to-have manner. Similarly in Civil Engineering and in structures foundation is the supporting base of a structure which forms the interface across which loads are transmitted to the underlying soil … Read more

Download Raft Foundation Design and Analysis with a practical approach by SC Gupta

Published on: May 26, 2015 by Saad Iqbal

Foundation engineering has been practiced as an art, without help of science, since time immemorial up to 1920 when it had achieved a considerable amount of refinement. It was in the earlier 1920s that a concerted effort was made to study and understand the physical laws governing the behavior of sub surface materials, i.e.. soil … Read more