Bearing capacity of strip and circular foundations on undrained clay subjected to eccentric loads

摘要

The failure envelopes for strip and circular footing subjected to vertical load and moment were obtained from finite element analyses and from the simple lower-bound solutions based on the effective width method. Derivation of the upper-bound solution for the problem of bearing capacity of foundations subjected to combined vertical load and moment is complex. However, comparison of the failure envelopes obtained in this Study shows that the effective width method, commonly used in The analysis of foundations subjected to eccentirc loading, Provides good approximations to the collapse loads for these Problems.