One of the most important factors for designing a safe foundation is amount bearing soil capacity and allowable settlement according to type structure. Therefore, in geotechnical engineering, aim improve foundations' many ways, some which are expensive, other section difficult implement sites. Skirted foundations consider as an ideal solution cost-wise tolerance by reducing materials installati...

The significance of incorporating soil-structure interaction effect in the analysis and design of RC frame buildings is increasingly recognized but still not penetrated to the grass root level owing to various complexities involved. It is well established fact that the soil-structure interaction effect considerably influence the design of multi-storey buildings subjected to lateral seismic load...

Load carrying capacity of flat double-layer space structures majorly depends on the structures' imperfections. Imperfections in initial curvature, length, and residual stress of members are all innately random and can affect the load-bearing capacity of the members and consequently that of the structure. The double-layer space trusses are susceptible to progressive collapse due to sudden buckli...

In the case of problematic soils and tall buildings where the design requirements cannot be satisfied merely by a raft foundation, it is of common practice to improve the raft performance by adding a number of piles so that the ultimate load capacity and settlement behavior can be enhanced. In this study, the effect of spatial variability of soil parameters on the bearing capacity of piled raft...

In recent years, determining bearing capacity of piles from in-situ testing data as a complement to static and dynamic analysis has been used by geotechnical engineers. In this paper, different approaches for estimating bearing capacity of piles from SPT data are studied and compared. A new method based on N value from SPT is presented. Data averaging, failure zone and plunging failure of pil...

construction of railway embankments on loose beds without using any methods of soil improvement (e.g. stone columns in silt and clay beds, deep soil mixing method, jet grouting and also using micropiles individually or in groups form) leads to  reduction of embankment slope gradient, which significantly increases the volume of soil operation. generally, micropile as a reinforcing element with t...

An extensive program of laboratory testing was conducted on ring footing rested gypseous soil brought from the north Iraq (Salah El-Deen governorate) with a gypsum content 59%. There are limited researches available, and even fewer have been done experimentally to understand how footings behave; almost all previous works only concern behavior under vertical loads, Moreover, relatively few studi...

Conhecer as características do solo é um fator fundamental para entender a sua conduta diante de várias incertezas que o compreende. A análise probabilística permite mapear e gerenciar modo se tenham condições associar parâmetros probabilísticos ao comportamento solo. Para executar projeto fundações, necessário conhecer capacidade carga, ou seja, determinar tensão provoca ruptura da mesma. Dest...