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The maximum load per unit area which soil can resist safely without displacement is known as

ASafe bearing capacity

BFactor of safety

CBearing capacity

DNone of these

Answer:

C. Bearing capacity

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Safe bearing capacity gives the ratio between Bearing capacity to Factor of safety


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