Foundation design and analysis bowles pdf

The foundation scheme may have to consider expansive soil conditions

Here the building tends to capture upward-migrating soil water vapor, which condenses and saturates the soil in the interior zone, even as normal perimeter evaporation takes place

It should be evident that both parties need to appreciate the problems of each other and, par- ticularly, that the foundation design engineer must be aware of the approximate methods used f to obtain the soil parameters being used

This understanding can be obtained by each having training in the other's specialty

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