Reinforced Concrete Grade Beams, Piles & Caissons

REINFORCED CONCRETE GRADE BEAMS, PILES &CAISSONSA SimplifiedGuideforHillsideEngineeringThis book is the torchlight for Architects, engineers, contractors & homeowners. It tells about different type of soils & how they create problems when building astructure on it. The book tells the reader about how to solve the problems of soft soil by going deepinto foundation by supporting the structure on grade beams, piles & caissons. It brings the information about the role of different professionals who are involvedin solving these problems & building a dream structure for an ambitious homeowner. Several homeowners desire to live on nice, isolated, beautiful, dreamlike land. Butthey do not have any information about how this work is done. Another important characteristic of construction is loads, which are additional loadsdue to the Alluvium soil, depth of the deep foundation & availability of hard rock& slope of the site location, daylight to the edge of the foundation & water tableelevation etc. It discusses the importance of soil report & Geotechnical engineers soil samples. Importance of loads & load combinations are emphasized. Most important aspect is the CODE which has control of the local authority, Stateauthority & International authority. Not only that all the revisions in CODE shall beconsidered. The book gives several useful formulas for structural engineering calculations forthis kind of structures. I have added real life work samples which I have done for design of hillsidestructures. By Raksha N. Parmar (P.E.) State of California