Two- And three-dimensional bearing capacity of footings in sand

Geotechnique

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 647-662

  Lyamin, A V ^a   Salgado, R ^b   Sloan, S W ^a   Prezzi, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bearing capacity; Footings foundations; Limit analysis; Sand

Indexed keywords

BEARING CAPACITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRICTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SAND; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

BEARING CAPACITY EQUATION; EMBEDDED FOUNDATIONS; LIMIT ANALYSIS; RECTANGULAR FOUNDATIONS;

FOUNDATIONS;

BEARING CAPACITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOOTING; LIMIT ANALYSIS; SAND; SHAPE ANALYSIS; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 35348997529     PISSN: 00168505     EISSN: 00168505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/geot.2007.57.8.647     Document Type: Article

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