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Foundation in Refilled Soil

Abstract

In major cities due to scarcity of the space in prime locations, the construction is even proposed on refilled areas. The refilled areas may be of natural fill or engineering fill. In engineering re fill the proper precaution is taken for the selection of the refill material and at most care is taken for the compaction too with the understanding that some construction may be taken in future on such areas . But this type of the filling procedure is rarely adopted. Normally the filling is done by any material including garbage with no importance given to compaction; it is just dumping of the material in to the pits of the ground. It is always beneficial to have foundations on engineering refilled soil. But however it is a matter of great concerned when the foundation will be proposed on such type of natural or manmade refills. In this paper an attempt is made to study the raft foundation and raft with pile foundation on refilled manmade soil.