Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations TugboatEng on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
-
Settlement-based bearing capacity
As you know, the bearing capacity of large foundations is controlled by settlement, rather than strength. I have produced graphs that shows the bearing pressure corresponding to a specific settlement (say one-inch) for a range of foundation sizes. Q. Should a safety factor be applied to the...- rxf
- Thread
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Earthwork/grading engineering
