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    At least 3 exploratory borings should be drilled to a depth of 20 meters to characterize the subsurface conditions at the site, which is underlain by fill, organic silts and clays, sandy clays and clayey sands, and limestone bedrock, with the groundwater table at 0.5 meters depth. Deep foundations extending into stiffer soils or bedrock will likely be required to support the building due to soft near-surface soils. Accessibility is not an issue at the site.

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    At least 3 exploratory borings should be drilled to a depth of 20 meters to characterize the subsurface conditions at the site, which is underlain by fill, organic silts and clays, sandy clays and clayey sands, and limestone bedrock, with the groundwater table at 0.5 meters depth. Deep foundations extending into stiffer soils or bedrock will likely be required to support the building due to soft near-surface soils. Accessibility is not an issue at the site.

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    Class Problem For Students PDF

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    Wayne Chu
    At least 3 exploratory borings should be drilled to a depth of 20 meters to characterize the subsurface conditions at the site, which is underlain by fill, organic silts and clays, sandy clays and clayey sands, and limestone bedrock, with the groundwater table at 0.5 meters depth. Deep foundations extending into stiffer soils or bedrock will likely be required to support the building due to soft near-surface soils. Accessibility is not an issue at the site.

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    A one-story, 50 m wide x 90 m long manufacturing building is to be built on a Site underlain by

    medium dense to dense silty sand with occasional gravel. This soil probably has better-than-
    average engineering properties and average uniformity. There are no indications of previous
    grading or fill at this site, and the groundwater table is believed to be about 30 m below the
    ground surface. We anticipate supporting this building on spread footing foundations located
    about 0.5 m below the ground surface. There are no accessibility problems at this site.

    a. How many exploratory borings will be required, and to what depths should they be drilled?
    A one-story, 20 m wide x 50 m long concrete tilt-up office building is to be built at a site near a
    wetlands. Previous exploratory borings at nearby sites encountered about 1 m of moderately stiff
    clayey fill underlain by about 4 m of very soft organic silts and clays, then 15 m of progressively
    stiffer sandy clays and clayey sands. Limestone bedrock is located about 20 m below the ground
    surface. The groundwater table is thought to be at a depth of about 0.5 m. Because of the soft
    soils, we will probably need to support this building on deep foundations that extend at least into
    the stiffer soils, and possibly to bedrock. There are no accessibility problems at this site.

    a. How many exploratory borings will be required, and to what depth should they be drilled?

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