Investigation of Soil and Bearing Capacity in Different Site Conditions
Soil is a loose deposit of minerals and organic particles occupying top position of earth crust. It is naturally available material produced by weathering of the rock. Soil being the product of nature, its properties may vary from site to site. In todays context due to massive increase in population, urbanization and rapid industrialization, there is no option left but to adopt construction on limited available lands like waste disposal site and the sites where water table is nearer to ground. So it is very essential to study geotechnical properties of soil in such typical site conditions and civil engineer must be ready to plan, design, construct structures and maintain them throughout the life of structures. The record of trial pits bore hole and testing of soils collected from different site locations and depths gives necessary input for design of foundations. In the present paper the geotechnical investigations for the proposed construction of fund servants quarters and school building for Cantonment Board at Aurangabad is carried out. Based on the study and judicious judgment the depth of foundation is decided.