Mat Foundation Construction Process

Raft or mat foundations a raft foundation also called a mat foundation is essentially a continuous slab resting on the soil that extends over the entire footprint of the building thereby supporting the building and transferring its weight to the ground.

Mat foundation construction process.

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. Raft foundation is also known as mat foundation. Los angeles building department engineer and contractor observations on the successful oceanwide plaza concrete schedule will influence mat foundation slab shear wall and column construction for reinforced concrete high rise buildings soon to break ground throughout downtown. At those places we use mat foundations to distributes the whole loads of the structure to the soil when the area of the footing was increase than the soil load bearing capacity will also increase because this foundation reduces the stress on the soil at the same place.

Definition of raft foundation along with working principle when to choose raft types of raft foundation materials of raft foundation raft construction steps etc are discussed below. 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. Raft mat foundation is used in those places where we have less bearing capacity of the soil.