Effect of foundation embedment on consolidation response

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering: The Academia and Practice of Geotechnical Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 638-641

  Gourvenec, S M ^a   Randolph, M F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Consolidation; Excess pore pressure; Finite elements; Foundations

Indexed keywords

CONSOLIDATION SETTLEMENT; ELASTIC HALF SPACE; EMBEDDED FOUNDATION; EXCESS PORE PRESSURE; FINITE ELEMENT; INTERFACE ROUGHNESS; SHALLOW FOUNDATIONS; SIDE FRICTION;

CONSOLIDATION; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; SETTLEMENT OF STRUCTURES; SOIL MECHANICS;

FOUNDATIONS;

EID: 84865191794     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-031-5-638     Document Type: Conference Paper

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