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The characteristic of expansive soil, especially swelling and shrinkage, may affect its bearing capacity, which has to be concerned in the field of civil engineering construction. So, we have to understand real bearing capacity of the expansive soil. The experiment is aimed at finding information about bearing capacity of expansive soil. The experiment was carried on through a model test. The result of this model is sets of data of settlement, index properties, and shear as the sample is loaded. This data are used to compute the bearing capacity. The value of bearing capacity was computed using by Agarwal\u27s theory and than compared with Terzaghi\u27s theory. Agarwal\u27s theory used specially for expansive soil but Terzaghi theory is for general soil. The result of this research shows that bearing capacity factor using expansive soil are almost the same. The expansive soil however have other bearing capacity factor (Ns)