GATE CE · 2026 · CE
Question 58: Foundation Engineering
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Question 58
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A building is proposed in an area having thick deposit of silty clay. The water table is at the ground surface. The saturated unit weight of soil is 18 kN/m³ and unit weight of water is 10 kN/m³. The maximum vertical load (P) on a column of the proposed building is 200 kN.
Consider
for computation of the minimum depth of soil exploration.
is the effective vertical overburden stress.
is the increase in the vertical stress at depth z below load P as per the Boussinesq’s stress theory.Based on above, the minimum depth (in m) of soil exploration required for the foundation design is ______ (rounded off to two decimal places).
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2026CE
GATE CE 2026 · Paper 2
Civil Engineering · Original paper archive
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- Civil Engineering
- Question type
- Numerical answer (NAT)
- Marks
- 2 marks
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