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On effectue, dam le cadre de la théorie des équilibres limites plans, le calcul global de la capacité portante d'une semelle filante, en prenant en compte les effets de pesanteur, surcharge, cohésion et gradient vertical constant de cohésion. On met en évidence une représentation commode des résultats en coordonnées réduites permettant, du point de vue pratique, l'utilisation d'une courbe unique pour déterminer la capacité portante lorsque 4°≤ φ ≤40°. On montre que l'effet du gradient de cohesion, souvent totalement ignoré, peut être très sous-estimé par l'emploi d'une formule de superposition dans le cas des petits angles.

Calculations of the bearing capacity of a strip footing are performed within the frame of the plane limit equilibrium theory, taking into account the effects of weight, surface load, cohesion, and of a constant vertical gradient for the cohesion. By means of reduced co-ordinates it is shown that the results so obtained can be plotted very conveniently making it possible to refer to a single curve for the determination of the bearing capacity, when dealing with practical problems for 4° ≤ φ le 40°. It is pointed out that the effect of the cohesion gradient which is often unknown may be considerably under-estimated by the use of a linear formula for the bearing capacity, when dealing with a soil for which φ is small.

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