Cumulative settlement is one of the primary potential detrimental aspects of rocking foundations. It has been well documented that if the factor of safety against bearing failure is not very large (e.g., less than five or so), settlement can become significant. A series of footings of different shapes were subject to lateral slow cyclic loading on the centrifuge to study the effect of shape on ...

In this paper, the analysis of a numerical study for consolidation short bored pile subjected to axial loads is presented. An short-bored performed using finite element software Abaqus CAE with base procured experimental data in sand media and comparative on Ansys FEA. Three models combination footing system were developed by application incremental load which displacement upon each was analyze...

Because pigs frequently lose their footing and slip, it is important to understand slipping and its relation to different floor surfaces. An experiment was conducted to evaluate the gait and footing of young pigs walking on concrete floor surfaces having known friction characteristics and to determine critical skid resistance values in terms of the fitness of a concrete surface for flooring in ...

Results of an experimental investigation of the seismic performance of prefabricated column-footing connections are presented. Tests were conducted on six 1/4-scale prefabricated column specimens inserted into prefabricated footings in two Groups. Group-1 consisted of four specimens, which were tested under constant axial load and cyclic inelastic lateral displacements. The remaining two specim...

The paper examines the merit of a bounding surface plasticity model at both element and system level. governing equations are based essentially on parent reported by Dafalias Manzari in 2004 with some simple yet practical changes to enable realistic predictions for monotonic loading along different load paths. This is achieved scaling influence state parameter normalised measure anisotropy, thu...