Seismic bearing capacity for embedded footings on sloping ground

In the last decade, several investigations have been carried out to compute the bearing capacity of foundations considering the pseudostatic earthquake body forces within soil mass. These studies have been based on the limit equilibrium method (Sarma & Iossifellis, 1990; Budhu & AlKarni, 1993; Sarma & Chen, 1995, 1997; Kumar & Kumar, 2003), the upper-bound theorem of limit analysis (Richards et al., 1993; Dormieux & Pecker, 1995; Soubra, 1997; Zhu, 2000) and the method of stress characteristics (Kumar & Rao, 2003). It is understood that the...