The Types of Footings and Foundations Explained Insights of a Structural Engineer

There are many types of Footings and Foundations, each with their benefits and drawbacks. I will be going through the main types of structural foundations, along with their structural properties allowing you to know which structural footings to use.

The design of foundations requires you to understand the soil as the structural mechanics of the soil will affect which footing system to choose, so no discussion on footing design would be complete unless you start at know how the foundation material will behave.

Footings can also be divided into two main categories these are deep foundations or shallow foundations. The main types of deep footings are either Piles either driven screw or bored, while shallow foundations are pad footings, strip footings or raft slabs. there are main other types of footing however these are typically the main types of footings.



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