... Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only bearing capacity limit state design/analysis lower bound masonry arch soil backfilled masonry arch bridges stress fields B width of surface load b half-width of surface load...

... the mechanisms behind the soil plug evolution. The degree of soil plugging is quantified by a mechanism-based approach with force equilibrium and adjusted bearing capacity theory, through which the incremental filling ratio and penetration resistance against installation depth can be estimated. The effectiveness...

... to different piled raft configurations. Corresponding author Francesco Potini (francesco.potini@unicusano.it) 23 06 2025 20 11 2025 © 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only bearing capacity finite-element modelling limit...

...D. A. De Lange; K. G. Gavin; H. J. Lengkeek; A. A. Roubos As open-ended steel pipe piles increase in size, efficient installation methods ensuring sufficient bearing capacity are crucial. A combination of vibratory and impact driving is commonly used to install these piles. However, compression...

...Francesco Potini; Giulia M. B. Viggiani; Riccardo Conti This work focuses on the undrained bearing capacity of pile groups subjected to combined vertical, moment and lateral loads. Advanced three-dimensional (3D) finite-element analyses were used to identify the possible plastic mechanisms...

...Yuepeng Dong The bearing capacity of soils is critical in the design and analysis of foundations. The classical solutions derived from methods of characteristics and bound theories are based on the rigid plasticity and associated flow rule, which may not be realistic for natural soils...

... and enhanced bearing capacity. Conventional theory cannot explain this increase in strength, suggesting instead that bearing capacity with the phreatic surface at the sand surface should be approximately half that of the dry case. To explore this apparent contradiction, ten load-controlled bearing capacity...

... conducted to reveal the anchor capacity mobilisation mechanism. Findings indicate that the novel CGA possesses a significantly higher bearing capacity compared to standalone caisson or plate designs. By adding a plate above the caisson and increasing its weight, the anchor failure modes may shift from...

... of the taper angle on both the uplift bearing capacity and the developed horizontal reaction can be very significant. The numerical output informs the development of a closed-form approach for application in routine design. The new design method is shown to provide an excellent agreement with both finite...

... seabed trenches, which are increasingly encountered in engineering practice. 23 04 2022 08 09 2022 © 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 bearing capacity caissons numerical modelling trenches upper-bound solutions Suction caissons have been applied successfully...

.... 04 03 2022 09 09 2022 © 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 bearing capacity design methods & aids new pile–soil–existing pile interaction pile-head restraints piles & piling Pile foundations are widely used to support buildings and structures owing...

...Domenico Gaudio; S. P. Gopal Madabhushi; Sebastiano Rampello; Giulia M. B. Viggiani Allowing the transitory attainment of bearing capacity of caisson foundations supporting bridge piers during strong seismic events can lead to substantial optimisation in their design and major cost savings...

... of shear strength profile with depth; and z₀ is a constant, z₀ = s_u0/k. It is noteworthy that for normally consolidated marine clay s_u0 is often a value near zero. bearing capacity failure envelopes...

... the advantage that it can be integrated into the structural analyses of jack-up platforms required for site-specific assessments. © 2021 Thomas Telford Ltd 2021 bearing capacity centrifuge modelling footings/foundations offshore engineering soil/structure interaction Mobile jack-up platforms...

... soil, the upper-bound (UB) and the lower-bound solutions are found to be coincident, and then the exact solutions for the bearing capacity factors N_qe and N_ce under seismic conditions are obtained. The effect of soil weight is considered...

... of cutting face roughness, external embedment depth and caisson radius are also investigated. The results show that the influence of the cutting face inclination angle on the bearing capacity is highly dependent on both the soil friction angle and the roughness of the cutting face. A reduction in the caisson...

... in sand with D_R = 65% © 2021 Thomas Telford Ltd 2021 bearing capacity finite-element modelling foundations and soil–structure interaction monopile offshore engineering sands; wind turbine Offshore wind energy has gained popularity as a clean renewable energy...

... of general (uniform) scour are also investigated by removing a soil layer of constant thickness. Local scour is shown to have a minor effect on vertical bearing capacity. In stark contrast, the lateral performance is significantly affected, with the foundation moment capacity M_ult being...

.... These soil deformations can be significant for foundations with low vertical bearing capacity factors of safety. In this study, a set of dynamic centrifuge tests was performed to assess the response and to develop design considerations for a rocking foundation embedded in soil with varying degrees...

...Nilo Cesar Consoli; Eclesielter Batista Moreira; Lucas Festugato; Ricardo Daniel Caballero; Diego Foppa; Cesar Alberto Ruver The addition of a soil–cement reinforcement layer is an alternative to improve the bearing capacity of shallow foundations on weak soils. Recent research with small-scale...