Civil Engineering > GATE 2016 SET-2 > Bearing Capacity
A 4 m wide strip footing is founded at a depth of 1.5 m below the ground surface in a c-ϕ soil as shown in the figure. The water table is at a depth of 5.5 m below ground surface. The soil properties are: c'=35 kN/m2, ϕ'=28.63°, γsat=19 kN/m3, γbulk=17 kN/m3 and γw=9.81 kN/m3. The values of bearing capacity factors for different ϕ' are given below.
Using Terzaghi's bearing capacity equation and a factor of safety Fs=2.5, the net safe bearing capacity (expressed in kN/m2) for local shear failure of the soil is
Correct : 299.4
Similar Questions
A 2 m wide strip footing is founded at a depth of 1.5 m below the ground level in a homogeneous pure clay bed. The clay bed has unit cohesion of 40 kPa. Due to...
A square footing of size 2.5 $m \times$ 2.5 m is placed 1.0 m below the ground surface on a cohesionless homogeneous soil stratum. Considering that the groundwa...
A strip footing is resting on the surface of a purely clayey soil deposit. If the width of the footing is doubled, the ultimate bearing capacity of the soil
Total Unique Visitors
Loading......