Civil Engineering - Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering - Discussion

Discussion Forum : Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering - Section 6 (Q.No. 2)
2.
Pile foundations are generally preferred to for
bridge foundations
sky scrapper buildings
residential buildings
runways.
Answer: Option
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Swap said:   8 years ago
Actually mostly bridge have well foundation but in some bridges pile foundation is also carried out.

Nayan said:   8 years ago
In India, bridge used well foundation.

Avinash Shinde said:   7 years ago
Empire State building is the best example of skyscraper with pile foundation.

Udaysingh Samadhan Jadhav said:   7 years ago
Pile foundation will resist the horizontal forces acting on skyscraper building due to the wind.

It will act as a tensile pile too. To resit horizontal tensile forces.

Vivek Kumar said:   6 years ago
According to soil condition, pile foundation is a prefererd bridge on both the structure pier and abutment.


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