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Building on Sloping Ground
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Building on Sloping Ground

Building on Sloping Ground

(OP)
Hello Everyone,
Greetings of the day..

Can anybody help me to get some idea or literature on Building On Sloping Ground. I have a step back set back building resting on a sloing ground having slope of 30 degree.

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RE: Building on Sloping Ground

Depending on the width of your building,might consider a daylight basement,full or partial.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

RE: Building on Sloping Ground

(OP)
My querry is related from structural design point of view.

Thanks for the reply

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RE: Building on Sloping Ground

I've always designed for ground slopes either with step footings, or with constant footing depth combined with retaining walls. In the soil retaining case, overall building sliding resistance becomes a concern, which will need to be checked. Unless you have a large amount of overturning moment on a stepped footing, there aren't any particularly novel structural concerns with either of these methods.

Brian C Potter, PE
http://simplesupports.wordpress.com

RE: Building on Sloping Ground

rowingengineer, those diagrams are wonderful. I don't mean that because of the technical content (although, it is interesting) but rather because the second diagram is great. Someone got to draw a diagram of what happens if everything is designed wrong and then fails at exactly the same time.

Things that are happening:

Boulder crushes house
House settles and cracks
Pool cracks and floods the retaining wall (along with roof runoff and other water)
Retaining wall fails and the rocks and slope crash into a car
driveway fails and the whole thing falls down the hill

It's one of the funniest serious educational diagrams I've seen in a while.

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