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GRILLAGE FOOTING
High rise buildings are built with steel columns encased in concrete. Such columns carry very…
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Foundations – R.C.C. FOOTINGS
There are mainly two types of R.C.C. footings: 1. One way reinforced footings. 2. Two…
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Surcharging
The rate of consolidation always slows down significantly toward the end of the consolidation period.…
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Combined vertical and horizontal flow
Carillo (1942 and Asaoka (1978) developed Eq. 4.2 to express the average degree of consolidation…
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Vertical Drains To Accelerate Settlement
Introduction All materials will undergo volume change when subjected to stress change and soils are…
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The Janbu Method versus Conventional Methods
The Janbu tangent modulus method is not different to—does not contrast or conflict with—the 'conventional'…
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The Janbu Approach
General The Janbu approach, proposed by Nilmar Janbu in the early 1960s (Janbu 1963; 1965;…
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Linear Deformation (“Elastic”)
Linear stress-strain behavior follows Hooke’s law (“elastic modulus method”) according to Eq. 3.1. The "elastic…
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Settlement Calculation
Introduction A foundation is a constructed unit that transfers the load from a superstructure to…
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Comparison between the Eslami-Fellenius and Robertson (1990) Methods
To provide a direct comparison between the Robertson (1990) profiling chart and the Eslami-Fellenius chart,…