... footings/foundations models (physical) shallow foundations suction Every beachgoer quickly discovers where to walk on a beach. If a path is chosen too high up the beach, the sand is dry, and foot pressure results in large and tiring settlements associated with bearing capacity failure. Attempts...

... to investigate the effect of spatially variable soil properties on the load-carrying capacities of shallow foundations. To date, most studies of shallow foundations on spatially variable soils have focused on the probabilistic pure vertical capacity (Griffiths & Fenton, 2001 ; Griffiths et al...

... Baars, 2018a , 2018b), the bearing capacity of a shallow foundation is a classical problem of geotechnical engineering that has been tackled using different approaches: limit equilibrium (Sarma & Iossifelis, 1990 ; Budhu & Al-Karni, 1993 ; Richards et al., 1993 ; Kumar & Kumar...

...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...

...; and (c) minimisation of internal work by variation of the displacement field using the different pattern functions. The approach is demonstrated on two problems: (a) a vertically loaded shallow foundation; and (b) laterally loaded piles. The approach is evaluated by comparison with finite difference...