Bearing Capacity of Piles in Soft Clay Underlaid by Cohesive Frictional Soil
Publication: International Journal of Geomechanics
Volume 13, Issue 3
Abstract
By using the axisymmetric quasi-lower bound finite-element limit analysis, the bearing capacity factors and have been computed for axially loaded piles, with the shaft embedded in a fully cohesive soil medium and the tip placed over cohesive frictional soil strata. The results were obtained for various combinations of , , and ; the subscripts and refer to lower and upper soil strata, respectively. The factors and increase continuously with increases in and ; the rate of increase of and with , however, decreases with an increase in . For , the factor hardly depends on .
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International Journal of Geomechanics
Volume 13 • Issue 3 • June 2013
Pages: 311 - 317
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© 2013 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Aug 27, 2011
Accepted: Jan 31, 2012
Published online: Feb 2, 2012
Published in print: Jun 1, 2013
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