Design of a MultiStoreyed Building and its Pile Foundation

Abstract

For a civil engineer or civil engineering student, designing building may be his cup of tea but often problems occur when the same engineer has to deal with the geological part that is designing of foundation of the same building. Such problems mainly occur because in colleges, even though all the aspects of civil engineering such as building bridges, constructing buildings, making highways, designing foundation etc. are taught, students tend to incline towards one particular course. Moreover students take particular electives which they think they might excel in. There is nothing wrong in doing so but students tend to face difficulties later when expertise in one course is not enough. Our project is such a work in which we not only design a building but also its foundation using the loads computed that is knowledge of more than one subject is incorporated in our project. Yet our project is a very simple one that is to build a five storey building with its foundation. We firstly study the data we have in hand. We were provided with data like bore log data, consolidation data, etc. Then we create a soil profile on which our building will stand. We then find different soil parameters. Based on these soil parameters we have to find the bearing capacity and settlement criterion and later on, check whether our designed foundation is sufficient or not. We design the five storey building by assuming data like the clear height between floors, dimension of elements and their quantity. The building is designed on STAADPRO and manual calculations are done to verify the sufficiency of the design. In short the project mainly revolves around designing different elements of the building and verifying their adequacy by means of various methods and methodologies.