The angle of the face of the frustum to the vertical is usually designated @ and will vary from 35 to 40

in rock, to 25 in good homogeneous hard clay to zero in saturated noncohesive ground. The soil density
will vary from just over 2000 kg/m3 for homogeneous rock to about 1600 kg/m3 for soil with normal
moisture content to about 800 or 900 kg/m3 in the case of ground subjected to water uplift.

Methods of calculation of uplift capacity are shown below.