Mat Foundation Thickness

It is used to support storage tanks industrial equipment silos chimneys and various tower structures.

Mat foundation thickness.

It is a suitable solution for low bearing capacity soil spread footing cover about 70 of the structure high structure loads soft pockets or cavities of in the soil to unknown extent raft and. How to construct a raft or mat foundation a raft foundation is constructed by first excavating the ground to a uniform flat level. Then a waterproof plastic sheet is laid over the earth and a thin 3 layer of plain cement concrete pcc is poured just to create a perfectly flat and level base for the foundation. A mat foundation spreads out under the footprint of the building and declines the contact pressure compared to conventional strip or trench footing.

A 3 foot thick mat foundation and basement walls resist structural movement. Mat foundation is also known as the raft foundation. A mat foundation is a thick reinforced concrete slab supporting arrangements of columns or walls in a row or rows and transmitting the loads to the soil. It is a continuous thick concrete slab on the soil that extends the entire footprint of the building and increases the soil bearing capacity power.