Abstract :
For building of small height with one or two storeys, the owners are not interested for soil investigation. For these cases the foundation are designed on the basis of assumed average bearing capacity. The main objective of this research work is to determine an average bearing capacity for the design of low-rise building to be constructed in Khulna city corporation area. Some soil samples were collected from KUET (Khulna University of Engineering & Technology) campus and tested in the Soil Mechanics laboratory of KUET to determine the bearing capacity. Soil reports from more than sixty locations of Khulna were collected from CRTS (Consultancy, research and testing services) of Civil Engineering department KUET, Khulna. From these reports, the values of bearing capacity were taken for the purpose of analysis. Many equations are available in the determination of the bearing capacity of soil such as Terzaghi, Meyerhof and Hansen etcetera.
Keyword :
Bearing Capacity; Soil Investigation; Mean; Median; Mode; Standard Deviation; Coefficient of Variation.