- Title
- Two- and three-dimensional undrained bearing capacity of embedded footings
- Creator
- Nguyen, V. Q.; Merifield, R. S.
- Relation
- Australian Geomechanics Journal Vol. 47, Issue 2, p. 25-40
- Relation
- http://australiangeomechanics.org/journal
- Publisher
- Australian Geomechanics Society
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- The ability to predict the ultimate bearing capacity of a foundation is one of the most important problems in foundation engineering. To solve this problem, geotechnical engineers rountinely use a bearing capacity equation that contains a number of empirical factors to account for foundation shape, depth and inclination. In this paper finite element analysis is used to predict the undrained bearing capacity of strip, square, rectangular and circular footings embedded in clay. From these analyses, rigorous shape and depth factors have been derived and are compared with prvious numberical and empirical solutions in the literature. The bearing capacity behaviour is discussed and the bearing capacity factors are given for various cases involving a range of embedment depths and footing shapes.
- Subject
- deformation; numerical modelling; shape factor; depth factor; strip footing; square footing; circular footing; rectangular footing; embedment; bearing capacity; bearing capacity factor; clays
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1051241
- Identifier
- uon:15261
- Identifier
- ISSN:0818-9110
- Language
- eng
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