Vesic Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundation
Vesic Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundation
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When is it appropriate to use Vesic's formula for bearing capacity determination (cohesive, cohesionless, or both) and is it ever appropriate to exclude the phi=0 condition for foundations on clay?





RE: Vesic Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundation
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AASHTO, with exceptions, has adopted Vesic's bearing capacity method. It's interesting to note, however, that when the USACOE wrote its program CBEAR, they adopted Meyerhof's method as the more conservative one:
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