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Explain How to Design Footing in Expansive Soil and What Requirments to a void Problems which Happends- Before & After Design?

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Question added by Saida Mohammed Hamid Abubaker Elhakeem Elhakeem , Structural Engineer , SEDC
Date Posted: 2014/07/15
Wolf Klaas Kinsbergen
by Wolf Klaas Kinsbergen , Managing Director, Designer , ingenieursbureau KB International NV

first, always to expensive, but: do a good investigation of the soil you are designing on, That's means also you have to know what the maximum and minimum level of the ground water is, If the footing goes deep, see if you have problems with (I think the term is) aquatic water.

The investigation of the soil  and the parameters determines if the deflections are acceptable.

Mahmoud Abdulkader    Darwish
by Mahmoud Abdulkader Darwish , Consultant Bridge Engineer , Brench IDS consulting company

First, increase the depth of incorporation 

Second, replace the expansive soil under the foundations of granular soil gradients selected 

Third, eliminate the risk of water coming into the level of establishing the foundations and lower the water table, if any

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