what is pile foundation?

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what is pile foundation?..

Answer / yogesh kumar bachchhas

pile foundation is basically a long cylinder of a strong material such as concrete that is pushed into the ground to act as a steady support for structures built on top of it.
Pile foundations are used in the following situations:
When there is a layer of weak soil at the surface. This layer cannot support the weight of the building, so the loads of the building have to bypass this layer and be transferred to the layer of stronger soil or rock that is below the weak layer.
When a building has very heavy, concentrated loads, such as in a high rise structure, bridge, or water tank.
There are two types of pile foundations, each of which works in its own way.

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what is pile foundation?..

Answer / vamshi205

its a type of foundation which we use when the soil bearing capacity os very less at a particluar space. Want to know where we can use particular footing
Then follow this guide
https://civilread.com/different-types-footings/

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what is pile foundation?..

Answer / pallavi

pile foundations are a type of deep foundations when the
soil at shallow depth is incapable of transmitting the load
to the subsoil

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what is pile foundation?..

Answer / yogendra

pile foundation is a type of deep foundations,it used when
the very large design loads, a poor soil at shallow depth

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what is pile foundation?..

Answer / akshay salian

pile foundation is the foundation which prevents the super sturctue from the earthquake because the foundation rest on the hard strata of the rock

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what is pile foundation?..

Answer / g.chithrakumar,dce

Pile foundation is the part of deep foundation.(deep
foundation means if the depth of footing is greater than
it's width)
Pile foundation are intended to transmit structural
loads through zones of poor soil to a depth where the soil
has desired capacity to transmit the loads.
It usually consist of a no. of piles which together to
support of a structure.

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what is pile foundation?..

Answer / prasanna surendra magdum

It is the foundation made at much deep level,because hard
starta of soil is available at lower level considering
structural design of building &

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what is pile foundation?..

Answer / shivkalyan khaje

Pile foundation is type of deep foundation. Pile is longer slender member made either of timber,structural steel or concrete. Pile is transsmit load direct to firm strata, and also recive lateral strata from sub soil.

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what is pile foundation?..

Answer / satish

Pile foundation is the on off the deep foundation is transfer load off superstructure to surface area it will be mainly used pile foundation is provided with low bearing capacity of soil

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what is pile foundation?..

Answer / dinesh h chavan

Pile foundation is deep foundation to transfer the load of super structure to the ground .Pile foundation is used if the bearing capacity of soil is low or the sub soil water table is close to natural ground level

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