Geotechnical Engineering - Bearing Capacity

The ultimate bearing capacity of a 1 m wide strip footing is 532.80 kPa, when it is embedded at 1 m depth in dry cohesionless soil. The soil has a unit weight of 18 kN/m$^3$. The ultimate bearing capacity is 864 kPa when...

A designer used plate load test to obtain the value of the bearing capacity factor N$\gamma$. A circular plate of 1 m diameter was placed on the surface of a dry sand layer extending very deep beneath the ground. The uni...

A 2 m wide strip footing is founded at a depth of 1.5 m below the ground level in a homogeneous pure clay bed. The clay bed has unit cohesion of 40 kPa. Due to seasonal fluctuations of water table from peak summer to pea...

The width of a square footing and the diameter of a circular footing are equal. If both the footings are placed on the surface of sandy soil, the ratio of the ultimate bearing capacity of circular footing to that of squa...

The plate load test was conducted on a clayey strata by using a plate of 0.3 m × 0.3 m dimensions, and the ultimate load per unit area for the plate was found to be 180 kPa. The ultimate bearing capacity (in kPa) of a 2...