Question: A square footing is to be constructed at a depth of 4 m below ground surface on a Sandy Clay soil for which cohesion is

A square footing is to be constructed at a depth of 4 m below ground surface on a Sandy
Clay soil for which cohesion is 500 g/cm2
and the bulk density is 1.68 g/cm3
. The total load
applied to the soil is 425 ton uniformly distributed. Find out the size of the footing by
Terzaghis formula. Use a factor of 3 and NC =10, Nq =2 and N =2.

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