GATE CE · 2026 · CE
Question 57: Foundation Engineering
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Question 57
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The ultimate bearing capacity of a 1 m wide strip footing is 532.8 kPa, when it is embedded at 1 m depth in dry cohesionless soil. The soil has a unit weight of 18 kN/m³. The ultimate bearing capacity is 864 kPa when the depth of embedment becomes 2 m.
Neglecting the effect of the depth factor, the bearing capacity factor N_q is ______ (rounded off to one decimal place).
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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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