GATE Geotechnical Engineering: Shallow foundations: bearing capacity, combined footing, raft, settlement – Previous Year Questions
7 GATE previous year questions on Shallow foundations: bearing capacity, combined footing, raft, settlement (Geotechnical Engineering, Civil Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.
- GATE 2023 CE (CE1) Q42 – A square footing of size 2.5 m × 2.5 m is placed 1.0 m below the ground surface on a cohesionless homogeneous soil stratum. Considering that the…
- GATE 2024 CE (CE1) Q18 – A 2 m wide strip footing is founded at a depth of 1.5 m below the ground level in a homogeneous pure clay bed. The clay bed has unit cohesion of 40…
- GATE 2025 CE (CE2) Q56 – A designer used plate load test to obtain the value of the bearing capacity factor N . A circular plate of 1 m diameter was placed on the surface of a…
- GATE 2025 CE (CE1) Q56 – A 6 m × 6 m square footing constructed in clay is subjected to a vertical load of 2500 kN at its centre. The base of the footing is 2 m below the…
- GATE 2026 CE (CE2) Q44 – A shallow footing is subjected to a vertical load. Within the elastic limit of the underlying soil, the TRUE statement(s) is/are:
- GATE 2026 CE (CE2) Q57 – The ultimate bearing capacity of a 1 m wide strip footing is 532.80 kPa, when it is embedded at 1 m depth in dry cohesionless soil. The soil has a…
- GATE 2026 CE (CE1) Q59 – A shallow strip footing of width 2 m is embedded at a depth of 1.5 m below the ground surface in a homogeneous pure clay with an angle of internal…