What is the soil bearing capacity ? And how it should be to built a multistory

What is the soil bearing capacity ?
And how it should be to built a multistory building ?

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What is the soil bearing capacity ? And how it should be to built a multistory building ?..

Answer / swashtika

Soil bearing capacity is nothing but the capacity of soil to bear the load and also to transmitted the beared load to surrounding soil.

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What is the soil bearing capacity ? And how it should be to built a multistory building ?..

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The capacity of the soil to withstand the load from the structure.
For the multistorey building hard strata must explore at suitable depth.

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What is the soil bearing capacity ? And how it should be to built a multistory building ?..

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Maximum average contact pressure between the foundation and soil which doesnt produces shear failure

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