Thanks guys for your input, much appreciated. We have sized the pile end bearing for the 175kPa on factored loads. I did my exercise and checked the same pile for the allowable safe bearing pressure of 100kPa (2000psf) that is commonly used in our region and it came out as 2100psf applicable...
Hey guys,
A quick one...
Typically we receive geotech reports stating the loads in ASD (allowable), then we know it's unfactored loads vs allowable bearing pressure and it's all cool. We use unfactored loads for foundations sizing.
Anyway, since a while we've been getting geotech reports using...