Q. Once the pressure distribution is known ___________ in the reinforced concrete footing can be calculated.

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Q. In conventional design, allowable bearing capacity should be taken smaller than which of the following value?

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Q. In cohesive soil, the pressure distribution beneath the footing is ___________

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Q. When do strap footings are used in foundation?

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Q. When two column loads are unequal, which of the possible footing can be provided?

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Q. The total settlement of a footing in clay is considered to be consisting of ___________ components.

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Q. The component Sc, used in the total settlement of clay refers to which of the following?

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Q. The immediate settlement can be computed from the expression, based on ____________

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Q. The influence factor for rigid square footing is ____________

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Q. The equation for computing immediate settlement “Si = μ0μ1 q B ( 1-μ2/Es )” was proposed by ___________

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Q. The value of Es used in the immediate settlement equation, can be found out using _____________

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Q. A combined footing may be rectangular in shape if both the columns carry ___________

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Q. The influence factor Iw for rigid rectangular footing with L/B = 1.5 is ____________

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Q. The design of rigid rectangular combined footing consist in determining the ____________

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Q. If the independent spread footing of two columns are connected by a beam, it is called ___________

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Q. Which of the following condition is true regarding the transfer of load from strap to soil, used in strap footing?

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Q. When the allowable soil is low or the building loads are heavy, the footing used is ___________

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Q. If the resultant of the soil pressure coincides with the resultant of the loads, the soil is pressure is assumed to be ____________

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Q. In designing rectangular combined footing _________ should be adopted as the design value.

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Q. For a rectangular combined footing, x̅ is given as ___________

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