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Soil Capacity

SettingDescription
Allowable Soil Bearing Capacity The soil bearing capacity. If a soil table was assigned to the footing then the reported value is the interpolated soil capacity given the footing minimum plan dimension and depth.
Max Soil Bearing for Factored Design The maximum soil bearing stress used in factored design. The load combo value is the concrete load combination that produced the given value.
Max Average Soil Bearing for Factored Design The maximum average soil bearing stress used in factored design. The value is total stress on the soil divided buy the total area under the footing that is in compression. The load combo value is the concrete load combination that produced the given value.
Max Unfactored Soil Bearing The maximum soil bearing stress used for the soil capacity checks.
Max Average Unfactored Soil Bearing The maximum average unfactored soil bearing stress. The value is total stress on the soil divided buy the total area under the footing that is in compression. Note that the Average value may be from a different load combination then the Max Unfactored Soil Bearing.