Bearing Capacity of Strip Footings Near Slopes |
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Authors: | Francesco Castelli Ernesto Motta |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,University of Catania,Catania,Italy;2.Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Ambientale, Facoltà di Ingegneria,Università di Catania,Catania,Italy |
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Abstract: | In the last decades a great attention was given by many authors to the evaluation of the static and seismic bearing capacity
of footings near slopes. In this paper a model has been developed based on the limit equilibrium method, considering a circular
surface propagates towards the slope until the sloping ground is reached. The bearing capacity is investigated considering
either the distance of the footing from the edge of the slope and/or the effect of the footing embedment. A validation of
the proposed model was made by a comparison with solutions taken from literature regarding the evaluation of the bearing capacity
for a footing adjacent to a slope and for an inclined load. The loading conditions consist in vertical and horizontal stress
on the footing and on the soil below the footing. Both the inertial and kinematic effects of the seismic loading have been
analyzed, and a simple equation has been derived for the evaluation of the seismic bearing capacity. The static and seismic
bearing capacity has been investigated as a function of the soil friction angle, of the seismic coefficient, of the sloping
ground. Finally, the influence of the distance of the footing from the edge of the slope was taken into consideration in the
evaluation of the bearing capacity, and a threshold distance at which the reduction of the bearing capacity due to the sloping
ground vanishes has been defined. |
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