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Consider a square-shaped area ABCD on the ground with its centre at M as shown in the figure. Four concentrated vertical loads of P = 5000 kN are applied on this area, one at each corner.
The vertical stress increment (in kPa, up to one decimal place) due to these loads according to the Boussinesq's equation, at a point 5 m right below M, is _______.
Correct : 187.0 to 192.0
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