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EGB273 EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS
WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS!!/NEWEST UPDATE✓
Question: What are the functions of foundation for a building structure?
Answer:
✓ • Support imposed loads
✓ • Prevent settlement (including differential settlement)
✓ • Prevent possible movement of structure due to periodic shrinkage
and swelling of subsoil
✓ • Allow building over water or water-logged ground
✓ • Resist uplift or overturning forces due to wind
✓ • Resist lateral forces due to soil movement
✓ • Underpin (support) existing or unstable structures
✓ • Transmit the load further into the ground to counteract the moment
which will occur due to any horizontal loads
Question: How many types of foundation and what are their performances?
Answer:
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✓ • High level / Shallow Types of Foundation
✓ • Low level / Piled Strip footing, Pad (or Spread) footing, Raft (or Mat)
footing, Strapped (or Combined) footing
✓
✓ Shallow:
✓ • Shallow foundations take their name from the level they are founded
✓ • Typically lighter load than deep (piled) foundation
✓ • Much cheaper to construct
✓ • No specialist equipment needed
✓
✓ Deep:
✓ Transferring foundations to a convenient level; a firm soil stratum with
sufficient load carrying capacity
Question: What are the shallow foundation types?
Answer:
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✓ • Pad foundation - Used for relatively light loads or excellent ground
conditions such as high level rock (Not suitable for varying ground
conditions)
✓ • Strip footing - Used under walls or where there is a line of closely
spaced columns
✓ • Raft (or Mat) footing - Used where ground conditions are reasonably
good but variation is apparent across the site
Question: Sketch the pressure distribution for the pad foundation below
subject to uniformly distributed load
Answer:
✓ -
Question: What are the functions, types and characteristics of pile
foundation?
Answer:
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✓ Pile foundations transfer the load of a structure to denser bedrock
deeper than a shallow foundation similar to a pillar in a building.
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✓ Displacement (Driven Piles):
✓ • Timber
✓ • Precast concrete (sometimes prestressed)
✓ • Closed ended steel tube
✓ • Steel "H" sections
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✓ Cast in Place:
✓ • Bulb piles
✓ • Bored piers
✓ • Grouted piles
Question: What types of piles resist vertical loads?
Answer:
EGB273 EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS
WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS!!/NEWEST UPDATE✓
Question: What are the functions of foundation for a building structure?
Answer:
✓ • Support imposed loads
✓ • Prevent settlement (including differential settlement)
✓ • Prevent possible movement of structure due to periodic shrinkage
and swelling of subsoil
✓ • Allow building over water or water-logged ground
✓ • Resist uplift or overturning forces due to wind
✓ • Resist lateral forces due to soil movement
✓ • Underpin (support) existing or unstable structures
✓ • Transmit the load further into the ground to counteract the moment
which will occur due to any horizontal loads
Question: How many types of foundation and what are their performances?
Answer:
, Page | 2
✓ • High level / Shallow Types of Foundation
✓ • Low level / Piled Strip footing, Pad (or Spread) footing, Raft (or Mat)
footing, Strapped (or Combined) footing
✓
✓ Shallow:
✓ • Shallow foundations take their name from the level they are founded
✓ • Typically lighter load than deep (piled) foundation
✓ • Much cheaper to construct
✓ • No specialist equipment needed
✓
✓ Deep:
✓ Transferring foundations to a convenient level; a firm soil stratum with
sufficient load carrying capacity
Question: What are the shallow foundation types?
Answer:
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✓ • Pad foundation - Used for relatively light loads or excellent ground
conditions such as high level rock (Not suitable for varying ground
conditions)
✓ • Strip footing - Used under walls or where there is a line of closely
spaced columns
✓ • Raft (or Mat) footing - Used where ground conditions are reasonably
good but variation is apparent across the site
Question: Sketch the pressure distribution for the pad foundation below
subject to uniformly distributed load
Answer:
✓ -
Question: What are the functions, types and characteristics of pile
foundation?
Answer:
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✓ Pile foundations transfer the load of a structure to denser bedrock
deeper than a shallow foundation similar to a pillar in a building.
✓
✓ Displacement (Driven Piles):
✓ • Timber
✓ • Precast concrete (sometimes prestressed)
✓ • Closed ended steel tube
✓ • Steel "H" sections
✓
✓ Cast in Place:
✓ • Bulb piles
✓ • Bored piers
✓ • Grouted piles
Question: What types of piles resist vertical loads?
Answer:
