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Mat footing foundation.
The concept of stress is very basic to civil engineering.
A mat foundation spreads out under the footprint of the building and declines the contact pressure compared to conventional strip or trench footing.
A large thick usually reinforced concrete mat which transfers loads from a number of columns or columns and walls to the underlying rock or soil.
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Raft mat foundation is used in those places where we have less bearing capacity of the soil.
It is common to use mat foundation or deep basements to transfer the column loads to the underlying soil as well as provide floor slab for the basement.
Mat footing furthermore mat footings are helping to reduce the varying settlements caused by construction on non homogenous soils or uneven load distribution on the footing.
The program geo5 slab can be used for the design of mat foundations or slabs of any shape on elastic subsoil using the finite element method.
A mat foundation is used when the subsoil is weak and column loads are so heavy that the conventional spread footings cover more than 50 of the building area.