Undrained bearing capacity factors for conical footings on clay

Geotechnique

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 513-520

  Houlsby, G T ^a   Martin, C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bearing capacity; Clays; Plasticity; Theoretical analysis

Indexed keywords

BEARING CAPACITY; CLAY; FOUNDATION;

BEARING CAPACITY; CLAY; FOOTING; FOUNDATION;

EID: 0038006286     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.2003.53.5.513     Document Type: Article

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