... of initial, elastic settlement; foundation responses under seismic loading or for machine vibrations; and fixity of an offshore jack-up foundation under cyclic wave loading. Present codes of practice provide formulae that assume fully isotropic and linear elastic soil and in some case assume no friction...

.... In the absence of intact rock cores of suitable lengths, it was necessary to develop an alternative method of obtaining rock strength parameters. corresponding author: elong@swinburne.edu.my finite-element modelling friction A dimensionless constant in the power function...