BACKGROUND The method of characteristics (also called as the slip-line method) is used to calculate the bearing capacity of strip footings on ponderable soil. The soil is assumed to be a rigid plastic that conforms to the Mohr-Coulomb criterion. The solution procedures proposed in this paper is implemented using a finite difference method and suitable for both smooth and rough footings. By acco...

Stability of foundations near slopes is one of the important and complicated problems in geotechnical engineering, which has been investigated by various methods such as limit equilibrium, limit analysis, slip-line, finite element and discrete element. The complexity of this problem is resulted from the combination of two probable failures: foundation failure and overall slope failure. The curr...

The influence of combined loading on the response monopiles used to support offshore wind turbines (OWTs) is investigated in this paper. In current practice, resistance vertical and lateral considered separately. As OWT size has increased, slenderness ratio (pile length, L, normalised by diameter, D) decreased foundations are tending towards intermediate footings with geometries between those p...