Simple plasticity-based prediction of the undrained settlement of shallow circular foundations on clay

Geotechnique

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 435-447

  Osman, A S ^a   Bolton, M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clays; Deformation; Design; Footings foundation; Plasticity; Theoretical analysis

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOUNDATIONS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; PLASTICITY; SOILS; STRAIN; STRESSES;

SHALLOW FOUNDATIONS; THEORETICAL ANALYSIS;

CLAY;

CLAY; FOUNDATION; GROUND SETTLEMENT;

EID: 23844484866     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.2005.55.6.435     Document Type: Article

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