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Soil Details
g 13.5 kN/m³ Unit weight of soil (gamma)
c' (or cu) 25 kN/m² For undrained soils use phi' = 0
f 0 deg Angle of friction (phi')
mv 0.13 m²/MN Coefficient of volume compressibility
E 10 MN/m² Young's Modulus
n 0.35 Poisson's ratio
Water Table 4 m Depth to Water Table

Foundation Details
Shape re sq=Square, re=Rectangular, st=Strip
Rectangular Enter both length and width
Width 7.6 m Width of foundation
Length 17.6 m Length of foundation
Founding Depth 1 m Depth to Base of foundation FAIL!
Actual Bearing Str
Load 10900 kN Applied load - includes weight of foundation

Safety Factor
2.222 Required safety factor

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Results Bearing Capacity Calculations

Rectangular foundation Bearing Capacity Factors
7,6m x 17, Nq= 1.00 (Prandtl-Reisner)
Undrained Analysis (Phi=0) Nc= 5.14 (Prandtl-Reisner)
Actual Bearing Stress Ng= 0.00 (Brinch-Hansen)
81 kN/m² Ng= 0.00 (Meyerhof)
Net Bearing Stress
68 kN/m² Shape Factors (Terzaghi & Peck)
Ultimate Bearing Stress sq= 1.09
160 kN/m² sc= 1.09
Allowable Bearing Stress sg= 0.83
80 kN/m²
Actual Safety Factor
2.2 Inclination angle a 0 degrees
FAIL! Ng (BH for Brinch-Hansen) bh
Actual Bearing Stress > Allowable (M for Meyerhof)
Settlement Depth to water table
Elastic 55 mm below foundation, Dw 3 m
Consolidation 81 mm Effective unit weight (gamma') 12.08 kN/m³
Total 136 mm

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Depth Factors (Brinch-Hansen)

dq= 1.00
dc= 1.05
dg= 1.00

Load Inclination Factors (Meyerhof)

iq= 1.00
ic= 1.00
ig= 1.00

Ultimate Bearing Capacity using Brinch-Hansen Ng factor

qu=cNc+1/2gamma'BNg+gamma'D(Nq-1)+gamma.D

qu (Including shape factors) 153 kN/m²

qu (Including shape and depth factors) 160 kN/m²
qu (Including shape, depth and inclination factors) 160 kN/m²

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Settlement Calculations
Depth to Depth to
Total Depth/Width 2.5 Layer layer layer centre
No. base (m) z (m) m n
Total Depth 19.00 m 1 1.27 0.63 13.89 6.00
2 2.53 1.90 4.63 2.00
Thickness, dz 1.27 m 3 3.80 3.17 2.78 1.20
4 5.07 4.43 1.98 0.86
Equivalent 5 6.33 5.70 1.54 0.67
Radius, R 4.29 m 6 7.60 6.97 1.26 0.55
7 8.87 8.23 1.07 0.46
dz/R= 0.30 m 8 10.13 9.50 0.93 0.40
9 11.40 10.77 0.82 0.35
10 12.67 12.03 0.73 0.32
11 13.93 13.30 0.66 0.29
12 15.20 14.57 0.60 0.26
13 16.47 15.83 0.56 0.24
14 17.73 17.10 0.51 0.22
15 19.00 18.37 0.48 0.21

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Influence Stress Elastic Consolidation Columns used to calculate

Factor Change Settlement Settlement Influence Factor (Ir)
Ir (kN/m²) (mm) (mm)
1.00 67.9 7.5 11.2 0.11 -0.38
0.96 65.1 7.2 10.7 0.28 -1.61
0.86 58.7 6.5 9.7 0.35 -22.20
0.75 50.9 5.7 8.4 0.35 2.92
0.64 43.5 4.8 7.2 0.33 1.45
0.54 36.9 4.1 6.1 0.30 0.97
0.46 31.4 3.5 5.2 0.26 0.72
0.39 26.9 3.0 4.4 0.23 0.56
0.34 23.1 2.6 3.8 0.20 0.45
0.29 19.9 2.2 3.3 0.18 0.37
0.26 17.3 1.9 2.9 0.16 0.31
0.22 15.2 1.7 2.5 0.14 0.27
0.20 13.4 1.5 2.2 0.12 0.23
0.17 11.8 1.3 1.9 0.11 0.20
0.15 10.5 1.2 1.7 0.10 0.18
Total 54.7 81.1

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