Failure of Highly eccentric footing
Failure of Highly eccentric footing
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On a cohesive soil such as a clay the strip footing fails by shear on the shear plane. Safe bearing capacity found from field measurement of undrained cohesion and then Terzaghi’s equations or multiply Cu by 2 say.
Now we have a highly eccentric strip footing where most of the pressure is on the edge.
So now we apply a load until failure, how would footing fail ? And would it relate to bearing pressure mentioned above?
Now we have a highly eccentric strip footing where most of the pressure is on the edge.
So now we apply a load until failure, how would footing fail ? And would it relate to bearing pressure mentioned above?





RE: Failure of Highly eccentric footing
Mike McCann, PE, SE (WA)
RE: Failure of Highly eccentric footing
RE: Failure of Highly eccentric footing
RE: Failure of Highly eccentric footing
Mike McCann, PE, SE (WA)
RE: Failure of Highly eccentric footing
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RE: Failure of Highly eccentric footing