Simple Foundation Design for Beginners - Structural Engineering

In this video I go run through simple foundation designs that will be suitable for beginners or fresh graduates.

I'll start with explaining allowable bearing pressures and where you find it in a site investigation report then I move onto a strip and pad foundation design.

0:00 Intro
0:18 Site investigation report/bearing pressures
1:40 Strip foundation example
3:44 Pad foundation example
6:30 Outro

The strip foundation design follows on from the load takedown example found here:    • How to Calculate Building Loads & Loa...  

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