Mat Foundation Construction Process

At those places we use mat foundations to distributes the whole loads of the structure to the soil when the area of the footing was increase than the soil load bearing capacity will also increase because this foundation reduces the stress on the soil at the same place.

Mat foundation construction process.

A mat foundation is used when the subsoil is weak and column loads are so heavy that the conventional spread footings cover more than 50 of the building area. It is common to use mat foundation or deep basements to transfer the column loads to the underlying soil as well as provide floor slab for the basement. Los angeles building department engineer and contractor observations on the successful oceanwide plaza concrete schedule will influence mat foundation slab shear wall and column construction for reinforced concrete high rise buildings soon to break ground throughout downtown. To begin constructing the solid slab raft foundation the vegetative top soil original soil is removed then the soil left behind is compressed.

Raft mat foundation is used in those places where we have less bearing capacity of the soil. Raft foundation is also known as mat foundation. Commonly used type of raft is the solid slab raft without downstand beam.