Effect of soil confinement on ultimate bearing capacity of square footing under eccentric-inclined load

Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering

Volumn 12 E, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Singh, Vinod Kumar ^a   Prasad, Arun ^b   Agrawal, R K ^b  

^a RITES ^*  (India)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cohesionless soils; Eccentric inclined load; Model tests; Soil confinement; Square footings; Ultimate bearing capacity

Indexed keywords

BEARING CAPACITY; FOUNDATIONS; LOAD LIMITS; SAND; SETTLEMENT OF STRUCTURES;

BEARING CAPACITY RATIO; COHESIONLESS SOILS; SOIL CONFINEMENT; SQUARE FOOTINGS;

SOIL MECHANICS;

BEARING CAPACITY; COHESIONLESS SOIL; ECCENTRICITY; FOOTING; LOADING; MODEL TEST; SOIL MECHANICS;

EID: 37449010627     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10893032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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