Bearing capacity of strip and circular foundations on undrained clay subjected to eccentric loads Available to Purchase

The bearing capacity of foundations has always been a subject of major interest in soil mechanics and foundation engineering. There is extensive literature dealing with this topic, from both the theoretical and experimental standpoints. A list of principal contributions to this subject can be found in Vesic (1973), Chen & McCarron(1991), and Tani & Craig (1995). Recently, Houlsby & Purzin (1999) investigated possible lower-bound and upper-bound solutions to the problem of the bearing capacity of a strip footing using a scaling procedure. A series of failure loci were presented, which include both lower-bound and upper-bound solutions. It...