The bearing capacity of a strip footing on clay under combined loading

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 455, Issue 1983, 1999, Pages 893-916

  Houlsby, G T ^a   Puzrin, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bearing capacity; Clay; Combined loads; Foundations; Plasticity theory; Soils

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000746851     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1999.0340     Document Type: Article

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