Structural Foundation Designers' Manual Book

	Preface
	The Book's Structure and What It Is About
	Acknowledgements
	Notation
Pt. 1	Approach and First Considerations
1	Principles of foundation design	3
2	Soil mechanics, lab testing and geology	16
3	Ground investigation	46
Pt. 2	Special and Further Considerations
4	Topography and its influence on site development	71
5	Contaminated and derelict sites	82
6	Mining and other subsidence	105
7	Fill	119
8	Ground improvement methods	135
Pt. 3	Foundation Types: Selection and Design
9	Foundation types	153
10	Foundation selection and design procedures	174
11	Design of pads, strips and continuous foundations	198
12	Tied and balanced foundations	242
13	Raft foundations	253
14	Piles	294
15	Retaining walls, basement walls, slip circles and underpinning	320
	Appendix A: Properties and presumed bearing pressures of some well known engineering soils and rocks	329
	Appendix B: Map showing areas of shrinkable clays	332
	Appendix C: Map showing areas of coal and some other mineral extractions	333
	Appendix D: Foundation selection tables	334
	Appendix E: Guide to use of ground improvement	339
	Appendix F: Tables relating to contaminated sites/soils	342
	Appendix G: Factors of safety	351
	Appendix H: Design charts for pad and strip foundations	353
	Appendix J: Table of ground beam trial sizes	358
	Appendix K: Design graphs and charts for raft foundations spanning local depressions	359
	Appendix L: Table of material frictional resistances	367
	Appendix M: Cost indices for foundation types	368
	Appendix N: Allowable bearing pressure for foundation on non-cohesive soil	369
	Index	371