No.

Title BEARING CAPACITY OF SURFACE FOOTINGS BY FINITE ELEMENTS

Bearing Capacity of Strip Footings on Two-layer Clay Soil by Finite Element Method

Author N. Manoharan and S. P. Dasgupta Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur-721 302, India Ming zhu

Date 31/10/1993

Summary

Bearing capacity factors of conventional solutions have been compared by FEM Analytical solution: slip-line method, limit euilibrium method and limit analysis. Superposition method: Terzaghi Excellent agreement was observed for Nc, Nq, and Ny, values. Combined analysis was performed. The superposition error was found to be less than 10% for all the cases considered in the paper.

Method

elasto-viscoplastic Mohr-Coulumb yield criterion With associated as well as non0associated flow rules. software used for analysis purpose; ABAQUS

2005

Issue: To evaluate the bearing capacity of a rough strip footing resting on two-layer clay soil. Solution/conclusion: Soil is modeled as an isotropic elastic-perfectly plastic material satisfying the Tresca failure criterion. Analysis is carried out under displacement control where vertical displacements are applied at the footing. Alternate methods are used when top soil level is weaker than the bottom layer, in which the whole soil is treated as homogenous and the failure mechanism of the top solid can be used as the representative of the whole soil. From this report it is concluded that the bearing capacity has an inverse relationship with the thickness of the top layer soil for a soft-over-strong clay profile and inverse trend for strong-over-soft clay profile. There exists a critical depth where the shear strength of the bottom layer does not affect the bearing capacity and failure mechanism is restricted only in the top layer.

Bearing capacity of rectangular footings on twolayer clay

Ming Zhu & Radoslaw L. Michalowski

2005

Issues: in the case of strip footing over a two-layer clay analysis has only been focused on the 2D problems Solution/conclusion: This paper assess the 3D problems of collapse of footing. Finite element analysis, kinematic limit analysis have been used for 2D analysis but for 3D analysis numerical limit analysis has to be used but it still only yields bounds to the solution that is obtained directly from FEM. Both depth of weaker layer and the ration of the strengths of the 2 layers affect the bearing capacity

numerical limit analysis

Footing Bearing Capacity on Elastic-Plastic Soil

GEO-SLOPE International Ltd, Calgary, Alberta, Canada www.geoslope.com

Issues: Comparing the ultimate bearing pressure from closed-form solutions Solution/conclusion: Bearing capacity problems can be particularly difficult to simulate for a number of reasons The footing loads are applied as a specific displacement boundary condition.SIGMA/W is used to come up with the forced required for specific displacement. The SIGMA/W results of a bearing capacity problem compare favorably with the solutions from closed-form bearing capacity equations.

SIGMA/W analysis

Probabilistic characteristics of strip footing bearing capacity evaluated by random finite element method

J. Pieczyska & W. Pua D.V. Griffiths G.A. Fenton

2011

Issues: How self weight affect the bearing capacity of spatially variable soil. Show how random fields of cohesion and angle of internal friction will affect the bearing capacity which is usually not taken into consideration. Solution/conclusion: Two random fields are taken into consideration, both cohesion and friction angle. This paper uses an elastic perfectly plastic stress strain law with a classical Mohr Coulomb failure criterion according to Fenton and Griffiths (2003) work. The Youngs modulus governs the initial elastic response of the soil, but does not affect the bearing capacity. Random properties and character of mechanical soil are usually not taken into consideration. The RFEM method has good prediction of soil condition and effective for design purposes.

RFEM predictions