| 释义 |
stepped footing stepped footing[′stept ′fu̇d·iŋ] (civil engineering) A widening at the bottom of a wall consisting of a series of steps in the proportion of one horizontal to two vertical units. stepped footingA footing consisting of a series of concrete prisms of progressively smaller lateral dimensions, one above the other, to distribute the load of a wall or column to the subgrade. |