Bearing Capacity vs. SPT
Bearing Capacity vs. SPT
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Are there any good books or sources that can relate the two. i would like to obtain soil beairng capaicy in chart form
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RE: Bearing Capacity vs. SPT
A section in the book sumaries all the SPT methods used to analyse the SBC (including terzaghi, Bowles, etc.) method. He has also made a comparison between all the methods.
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RE: Bearing Capacity vs. SPT
RE: Bearing Capacity vs. SPT
In general this is broken down into:
1. Obtain an initial allowable bearig pressure based on SPT N Value. From the general relationships, the allowable bearing pressure based on this assumption should 'typically' provide settlements of less than 25mm but they need to be checked once a more detailed design is known.
2. Undertake an initial design using the initial estimate of allowable bearing pressure
3. Check the detailed design against failure by settlement, differential settlement etc...
4. Undertake a re-design as required, based on the previous findings.
If you are going to use 'generic' values to identify an initial allowable bearing pressure, make sure you state the properties associated with it, i.e. 150kN/m² is not sufficient, it should be 150kN/m² based on a foundation width of 2.00m founded at 1.00m bgl. As you change the size of the foundation, you change the allowable bearing pressure.
RE: Bearing Capacity vs. SPT