What is Bearing Capacity of Soil? How will you calculate
for a particular type of Soil?

Answer Posted / mahesh b.jadhav

bearing capacity of soil, is the capacity which bear unit load on unit Square area without zero settlement/disturbance .
Keep a plate of unit area on soil. apply initial small load on that plate.record this value for settlement/movement.

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