Plate Load Test And Its Limitations

Every civil engineering students should need to come across this test as foundation engineering plays an important role in construction field. For any building it is important to know the strength of basement of earth. The surface of earth is needed to be checked to know whether it can withstand the structural load or not. Plate load test helps in finding the bearing capacity of soil. Load is applied at top loader which passes through a hydraulic pump and it give pressure to the bottom plate which is in direct contact with earth. A pressure gauge will show the bearing capacity of soil