ULTIMATE SEISMIC BEARING CAPACITY OF STRIP FOOTING USING MODIFIED KREY’S METHODS (FRICTION CIRCLE METHOD)

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-148
Author(s):  
AbdelAziz Ahmed Ali Senoon
2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (8) ◽  
pp. 943-954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Li Yang

Most of the seismic calculations currently used for the evaluation of seismic bearing capacity are formulated in terms of a linear Mohr–Coulomb failure criterion. However, experimental evidence shows that a nonlinear failure criterion is able to represent fairly well the failure of almost all types of rocks. In this paper, a nonlinear Hoek–Brown failure criterion is used to estimate the seismic bearing capacity factor of a strip footing on rock slopes in a limit analysis framework. Quasi-static representation of earthquake effects using a seismic coefficient is adopted for the seismic bearing capacity calculations. A linear Mohr–Coulomb failure criterion, tangent to the nonlinear Hoek–Brown failure criterion, is used to derive the objective function that is to be minimized. Upper-bound solutions are obtained by optimization. For static problems, bearing capacity factors related to uniaxial compressive strength, Nσ, are compared. For seismic problems, Nσ factors for different ground inclinations are presented for practical use in rock engineering.


2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arijit Saha ◽  
Sima Ghosh

The evaluation of bearing capacity of shallow strip footing under seismic loading condition is an important phenomenon. This paper presents a pseudo-dynamic approach to evaluate the seismic bearing capacity of shallow strip footing resting on c-F soil using limit equilibrium method considering the composite failure mechanism. A single seismic bearing capacity coefficient (N?e) presents here for the simultaneous resistance of unit weight, surcharge and cohesion, which is more practical to simulate the failure mechanism. The effect of soil friction angle(F), soil cohesion(c), shear wave and primary wave velocity(Vs, Vp) and horizontal and vertical seismic accelerations(kh, kv) are taken into account to evaluate the seismic bearing capacity of foundation. The results obtained from the present analysis are presented in both tabular and graphical non-dimensional form. Results are thoroughly compared with the existing values in the literature and the significance of the present methodology for designing the shallow strip footing is discussed.


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