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Bearing capacity of two interfering strip footings from lower bound finite elements limit analysis

Kumar, Jyant and Bhattacharya, Paramita (2013) Bearing capacity of two interfering strip footings from lower bound finite elements limit analysis. In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS, 37 (5). pp. 441-452.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nag.1104

Abstract

A rigorous lower bound solution, with the usage of the finite elements limit analysis, has been obtained for finding the ultimate bearing capacity of two interfering strip footings placed on a sandy medium. Smooth as well as rough footingsoil interfaces are considered in the analysis. The failure load for an interfering footing becomes always greater than that for a single isolated footing. The effect of the interference on the failure load (i) for rough footings becomes greater than that for smooth footings, (ii) increases with an increase in phi, and (iii) becomes almost negligible beyond S/B>3. Compared with various theoretical and experimental results reported in literature, the present analysis generally provides the lowest magnitude of the collapse load. Copyright (c) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS
Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL
Additional Information: Copyright for this article belongs to the WILEY-BLACKWELL, USA.
Keywords: bearing capacity; failure; finite element method; foundations; limit analysis
Department/Centre: Division of Mechanical Sciences > Civil Engineering
Date Deposited: 23 Apr 2013 06:19
Last Modified: 23 Apr 2013 06:19
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/46427

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