The paper presents the findings to reaffirm the principle that design of a piled foundation requires the analysis of the interaction between load transfer, soil settlement and pile toe load movement response.

<p>This paper applies numerical limit analyses to evaluate the ultimate bearing capacity of a surface footing resting on a rock mass whose strength can be described by the generalized Hoek-Brown failure criterion.</p>

The bearing capacity of square and rectangular shallow footings is typically<br>calculated using semi-empirical modifications of a strict solution to a strip footing over a weightless half-space. Two other approaches are presented in this paper for solving ...

It is suggested that the behavior of a small or large diameter footing as well as a pile toe is governed by compression of the soil below the footing or pile toe and not by bearing capacity.

<p>This paper is about foundations on Shale and Sandstone in the Sydney Region and includes relevant research findings and revisions of the original 1978 paper for classification system of shale and sandstone, guidelines and parameters.</p>

Limit loads on footings (bearing capacity) can be conveniently analyzed using the kinematic approach of limit analysis. Nonsymmetrical loads on strip footings include the horizontal component of the load and the moment. They can be also represented as load ...

Results of finite element analysis of settlement for footings of three sizes placed in two different sand types show that the settlement in sand is a direct function of neither footing size nor soil density. Instead, the settlement should be related to the ...