A spread footing supported on a sandy soil has been designed using ASD to support a certain column load with a factor of safety of 2.5 against a bearing capacity failure. However, there is some uncertainty in both the column load, P, and the friction angle,
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- (b) A plate load test was carried out on a ground having a uniform sand stratum up to sufficient depth. The size of the plate was 40 cm x 40 cm Load (kN) 5 10 20 28 38 50 56 Settlement 0.8 1.3 2.25 3.6 6 8.25 11.5 (mm) Plot the load settlement curve. Also determine the bearing capacíty and load that can be taken by a column footing of size 2m x 2m in this soil for an allowable settlement of 25 mmarrow_forwardFigure 5 summarizes the loading on two footings. What will be the increase in thevertical stress (Licrv) at point A which is located in the middle of two foundations and is 2meters deep from the ground surface? Calculation should be performed using twodifferent methods.arrow_forwardThe following results were obtained from CU tests on a clay soil that is the foundation material for an embankment. 03 (kPa) 300 400 600 0₁-03 (kPa) 331 420 487 Au (kPa) 111 160 322 (a) Determine the total and effective principal stresses for all three tests (You may summarize them in a table). (b) Recommend the shear strength parameters to be used for short-term and long-term analyses. The maximum confining pressure (cell pressure) at the depth of interest is 300 kPa. (Note: the clay is a normally consolidated one).arrow_forward
- A strip footing carries a load 14506 lbs per foot of length. The footing has a width of 2.3 ft. Determine the increase in vertical stress directly below the center of the footing at a depth of 0.8 ft. Provide your answer in psf, to 2 decimal place. Do not include units in your response.arrow_forward2- Determine the stress increase below the center of the footing using both theoretical and approximate methods at the top, middle and bottom of the clay layer. In addition, determine the average stress increase for the clay layer. Dimensions in Heights in m Unit weights in kN/m3 kN m P2 H1 H2 H3 BL Hw 2.5 Yoati 18.0 19.0 3.0 3.0 2.0 16.0 2 3 1174 Load - 0 Hw H1 H2 H3 OSand Clay (hoemally conactiduted)arrow_forwardA column load of 72 kips is applied to the 6 ft by 8 ft rectangular concrete footing shown below. The groundwater table is 2 ft deep. The soil profile and properties are shown below. The required minimum factor of safety against bearing capacity failure is 2.5. Is the current foundation design acceptable? Use Vesic’s bearing capacity formula 1a. Intermediate calculation: compute the ultimate bearing capacity, qult, in units of psf. 1b. Intermediate calculation: compute the applied bearing pressure, q, in units of psf. 1c. Final calculation: compute the factor of safety (FS) against bearing capacity failure.arrow_forward
- For a rectangular footing 4 ft x 8 ft, 100 kips of load is being applied. Compute stress increase 10 ft below the footing using 2:1 method in psi.arrow_forwardThe square footing shown in the figure carries a load of 3500 kN. Assume that the stress below the footing is distributed at a slope of 1H:2V. The clay layer is overconsolidated with OCR -2 Q - 3500 kN 4mx Sm 0.6 m Ya - 17.5 kN/m Sand 0.6 m GWT Sand 1.2 m 7'= 8.49 kN/m Yrat = 17.1 kN/m Clay e, = 1.4 C, = 0.06 = 0.38 1.2 m etermine the settlement of the clay layer.arrow_forwardA square footing is to be constructed on a sitly sand soil, as shown in the figure below. The groundwater table is at depth 15 m below the ground surface. Compute the ultimate bearing capacity and the column load required to produce a bearing capacity failure. ć= 8 kPa Solution: $ = 30 ý = 19 1 m. kN m³ 0.6 m-arrow_forward
- Figure (a) shows the cross section of square footing of 3 m x 3 m. The soil properties are shown in the figure. i) ii) Determine the load Q that the footing can carry. Use the factor of safety (FOS) of 2.5. During rainy season, groundwater level increased to the soil surface. Based on this condition, calculate the new FOS and justify whether the existing footing is able to carry the same amount of load as calculated in (a) Not drawn to scale 1.6 m 0.4 m Water level 3m Q Soil properties Yd=18.3K³ Ysat = 21 kN/m³ = 30°arrow_forward2. A building with a circular footing is constructed as the following figure. The design building load to the footing is 9650 kN. Find the distributed stress (Aoz) and final effective stress (o'vf) due to the circular footing at the following locations: at the intersection point of the footing center and a depth of 5.5 m. b. at the intersection point of the footing center and the mid-point of the clay layer? You are tasked to find out the depth of the mid-point of the clay layer. а. 5m Sand 4m Ysand = 18.5 kN/m³ %3D Clay Yclay = 15.8 kN/m3 %3D | 10m Sand Bedrock Center of footingarrow_forwardA flexible circular footing of radius R carries a uniform pressure q. Find the depth (in terms of R) at which the vertical stress below the center is 20% of q.arrow_forward
- Fundamentals of Geotechnical Engineering (MindTap...Civil EngineeringISBN:9781305635180Author:Braja M. Das, Nagaratnam SivakuganPublisher:Cengage Learning