Kindly clarify our query in the design of Pile Cap in RCDC as shown in the attached photograph. In design options, whether we should consider 1 times design capacity or 1.5 times capacity.?
The value simply depends on user decision. It depends on the factor of safety in design required by the user. If you want to design pile cap for future provision of higher load then you should go for some higher factor. We do not have any special recommendation for this and hence provided a field for the users to use.