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Foundation Knowledge Quiz

Test your understanding of foundation engineering with our comprehensive quiz designed specifically for students and professionals in the field. This quiz covers essential concepts related to loads, foundation systems, and soil mechanics.

Whether you are an aspiring engineer or just looking to refresh your knowledge, this quiz will challenge your skills and enhance your learning.

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The actions generated by Occupants, Furniture, Wind and Earthquake are what kind of loads?

Dead loads

Live loads

Static loads

Heavy loads

To perform efficiently foundations must be specifically designed and constructed to have adequate strength and stability to overcome such varying demands. If a foundation system is designed to resist overturning, which load has the engineer had to design for?

Earthquake

Wind

Settlement

Occupiers

Which of the following is not a cause of settlement?

Overloading of the soil.

Drying and shrinking of the soil

The inadequate bonding of soil particles found in Cohesive soil.

Removal of moisture from the soil through tree roots.

Which Raft Foundation System incorporates a floor slab, foundation slab and full height basement walls?

Cellular Raft.

Beam and Slab Raft

Column and Slab Raft

Solid Slab Raft

Raft foundations are used when:

Strong soil strata exists at ground level.

Wide strip foundations won't work.

An obstruction at a column position prevents an adequate foundation being placed directly under the column.

Weak soil strata exists at a depth beyond where the use of piles would be economic.

Strip Footings: Which of the following building elements would you most likely find sitting on top of this strip footing and foundation wall?

Load bearing column

A portal frame

A load bearing wall.

A non-load bearing wall.

How is a steel-reinforced concrete foundation kept from deteriorating during the life of the building?

A specified thickness of damp proof membrane is used to stop water gaining access to the concrete foundation.

A certified waterproof membrane is applied to the steel prior to being embedded in the concrete.

A specified minimum concrete cover in conjunction with waterproof membranes shields reinforcing steel, limiting oxygen or moisture penetration into the slab.

Reinforcing steel is made from stainless steel, so it does not corrode.

Overloading the soil to such an extent that the loaded area of the soil may shear past the surrounding soil. If a 1 sq.m. Pad footing was exerting a force of 75 kN downward what would the be the required soil bearing capacity? (hint: 1 kPa = 1 kN/m2)

100

125

Which of the following are considered shallow foundations?

Rib-raft foundation.

Strip footings.

Column pad footing.

All of the above

Which foundation type is best suited to support a foundation wall spanning over an existing storm sewer passing under the building's foundations?

A strip-footing foundation.

Cantilever foundation

Balanced base foundation.

Continuous column foundation.

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