design of foundation 3

[leitao110]

Recently met US design of foundation, but with reference to the design of concrete structures by arthur H.Nilson, but not based on design foundation, and there is no general design steps. Because it is self-learning, Could you tell me some books about design of concrete structures foundation？thank you.

 

[EngMan40]

Das, Coduto and Bowles.

 

[msquared48]

Peck and Thornburn, COE and NAFAC publications. I like Bowles too though.

Mike McCann, PE, SE (WA)

 

[msquared48]

Lambe too.

Mike McCann, PE, SE (WA)

 

[BigH]

Nilson's book (and he was my professor at Cornell) does talk about foundation design - the structural design of foundations. As the others point out, it seems that we all are of the opinion that you mean the geotechnical "design" (i.e., determining the allowable bearing capacity (in shear) which is, in practice, seldom the operative bearing stress and the allowable bearing pressures (in serviceability - i.e., settlements) which is, in practice, the governing criteria. You may have an allowable bearing capacity of 175 kPa but that might cause 40 mm of settlement and your structure - as designed by the structural engineer - has put a limit of 15 mm on the permissible vertical settlement of a footing (or might indicate a maximum tolerance level of distortion). The references the others give are quite reasonable.

I would suggest, though, that you pick up M.J. Tomlinson's book on Foundation Design and Construction. He provides actual case histories in his presentations, as do many earlier works by Tschebotarioff, Krynine and Judd (but not Das, Conduto and Bowles).

 

[Ron]

Following the geotechnical route, in addition to the excellent ones noted above, Murthy is pretty good and let's not forget Winterkorn and Fang!

For concrete structural design, Wang and Salmon, or the more recent Wang, Salmon and Malhas.

 

[BigH]

I ran across Murthy when I was in India . . . there were a few glaring errors that I sent off to the publisher so hopefully they were corrected in the North America publication. W&F was the first edition - the second was just Fang. I find it better because, well, I like the chapter authors more. W&F had too many eastern Europeans that developed things slightly different than I was used to . . . the big drawback with Fang is that they excluded Golder's very good chapter on Buoyant Foundation.