Solved of Bearing Capacity
1- What is the most important contents of any soil
report? State four elements and explain each one
2- What are the most common types of shallow
foundations? Use neat sketches.
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3- Discuss the effect of ground water table variation on
the bearing capacity values, use neat sketches.
4- What are the factors affecting Bearing Capacity of
soil?
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5- Define:
a) Ultimate Bearing Capacity(qult)
b) Effective stress (q)
c) Ultimate Bearing Capacity (qult- net)
d) Allowable Bearing Capacity (qall)
e) Allowable - gross Bearing Capacity (qall -gross)
f) Factor of safety.
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g) General shear failure in soil.
h) Local shear failure in soil.
i) Punching shear failure in soil
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A footing 2.25*2.25 m is located at a depth of 1.5 m in a sand layer, the shear
strength parameters to be used in design being c` = 0.0 and Φ` = 38˚.
Determine the ultimate bearing capacity:
(a) if water table is well below foundation level and,
(b) if water table is at surface. The unit weight of the sand above the water
table is 18 kN / m3, the saturated unit weight is 20 kN / m3.
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7- A strip footing is to be designed to support dead load of 500 kN / m` and an
imposed load of 300 kN / m` at a depth of 0.7m in a gravelly sand layer.
Characteristic values of shear strength parameters to be used in design being
c` = 0.0 and Φ` = 40˚.
a. Determine the Required width of footing if (lumped) factor of safety is 3.0
against shear failure is specified and assuming that the water table may rise
to foundation level.
b. Would a foundation of that width satisfy the bearing resistance limit state?
The unit weight of the sand above the water table is 17 kN / m3, and
below the water table, the saturated unit weight is 20 kN / m3.
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8- A footing 2.0*2.0 m is located at a depth of 4.0 m in stiff clay of a
saturated unit weight of 21 kN / m3. The undrained shear strength at a depth
of 4.0 m is given by characteristic parameter Cu = 120 kN/m2
(Φu = 0.0˚). The foundation supports a permanent load of 1200 kN and a
variable load of 700 kN . What is the actual used factor of safety?
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9- A base of long retaining wall is 3m wide and is 1.0 m below the ground
surface in front of the wall: the water table is well below base level. The
vertical and horizontal components of the base reaction are 282 and 102
kN/m, respectively. The eccentricity of the base reaction is 0.36 m.
appropriate values of shear strength parameters for foundation soil is
c` = 0.0 and Φ` = 35˚. And the unit weight of the soil is 18 kN / m3 .
Determine the factor of safety against shear failure.
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10- The square footing shown below must be designed to carry a total
permanent load 294 kN. Use Terzaghi’s bearing capacity formula to
determine the breadth (B) of the square footing with a factor of safety =
3.00.
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11- Using Terzaghi’s bearing capacity formulas, distinguish between
the local shear failure versus the general shear failure values for the
footing shown in the following figure
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11- A rectangular footing (1.5 m * 1 m) is shown in the following
Figure. Determine the magnitude of the gross ultimate load applied
eccentrically for bearing capacity failure in soil.
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12- Consider an eccentrically loaded continuous foundation supported
by a granular soil.
Given: B =1.5 m, D.f.= 0.75 m, load eccentricity (e/B = 0.1),
ɣsoil =17.5 kN/m3, Φ`= 30°, and C`= 0. Determine the gross ultimate
load per unit length that the foundation can carry.
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13- A column carrying a load of 1800.0 kN is supported by a
square footing whose base is 1.5 meters below the ground level.
The soil stratum beneath the footing consists of sand having an
angle of internal friction Ø=33°. The footing is subjected to
flooding condition. Submerged density of sand may be taken as
11.0 kN/m3. It is required to find out the size of the footing so as
to achieve a F.O.S. not less than three against shear failure.
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14- Find out the factor of safety against shear failure for the
shown footing and load condition.
P = 1500 KN, M = 200 kN.m
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