Introduction to subsoil

Supports of a "foundation" type, i.e. foundation block and foundation strip, are laid on the soil that forms the base for the structure. The parameters of this soil must be defined in order to allow the program to perform accurate calculations.

In SCIA Engineer the "under-foundation" soil is called subsoil and can be defined using functions:

• either: tree menu function Library > Subsoils,

• or: menu function Libraries > Subsoils.

Once at least one subsoil type is defined, it can be used for the definition of foundation blocks or foundation strips.