The use of cost-effective construction design approaches is an emerging concept in the field sustainable environments. foundation for any infrastructure-related building entails three basic requirements, i.e., serviceability limit state (SLS), ultimate (ULS), and economics. Engineering economy coupled with safety are two main essentials a successful project. conventional based on hit trial meth...

The electrical resistivity method has been successfully used to detect shallow buried foundations, almost, by using 2D electrode arrays. Basic geometry foundations (e.g., walls) have investigated, although, more complicated foundation designs stepped footing, pile group with a cap) are widely in the construction industry. Investigation of these types, and engaging 3D surveys, therefore, require...

This paper presents experimental and numerical studies of the vertical stress distribution beneath centerline circular footings resting on sand. Vertical values due to load in medium-dense sand were measured using soil transducers. Reduced-scale laboratory model tests carried out a square-shaped test box, stresses at footing different depths In order determine effect width distribution, experim...

The paper first presents the calculation of punching shear capacity concentrically loaded reinforced concrete column footings according to current Eurocode 2, which can be carried out in two ways: by conducting an iterative procedure and a simplified applying diagrams. By using these procedures, was performed for examined within experimental research authors this study, as well that were consid...

We describe two experiments performed on a 9-m-radius geotechnical centrifuge to evaluate dynamic soil–structure interaction effects the cyclic failure potential of fine-grained soil. Each experiment incorporated three different structures with range mass and stiffness properties. Structures were founded strip footings embedded in thin layer sand overlying lightly overconsolidated low-plasticit...