GATE CE · 2025 · CE
Question 58: Foundation Engineering
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Question 58
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A single pile with 450 mm diameter has been driven into a homogeneous clay layer, which has an undrained cohesion (cᵤ) of 20 kPa and unit weight of 18 kN/m³. The ground water table is found to be at the surface of the clay layer. The adhesion factor (α) of the soil is 0.95 and bearing capacity factor (N꜀) is 9. The pile is supporting a column load of 144 kN with a factor of safety of 3.0 against ultimate axial pile capacity in compression.
The required embedment depth of the pile (in m) is _________________ (rounded off to the nearest integer).
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2025CE
GATE CE 2025 · Paper 1
Civil Engineering · Original paper archive
- Section
- Civil Engineering
- Question type
- Numerical answer (NAT)
- Marks
- 2 marks
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