BEARING CAPACITY OF SHALLOW FOUNDATIONS

Terzaghi and Vesic Methods

Date January 20, 2018

Identification Shooring

Input Results
Units of Measurement Terzaghi
SI SI or E Bearing Capacity
q ult = 548 kPa
Foundation Information qa= 183 kPa
Shape sq SQ, CI, CO, or RE
B= 9.7 m Allowable Column Load
L= 2.57 m P= 17,182 kN
D= 5 m

Soil Information
c= 66.4 kPa
phi = 1 deg
gamma = 15 kN/m^3
Dw = 0 m

Factor of Safety
F= 3

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 Unit conve 1

Gamma w 9.8
phi (radian 0.017453

Terzaghi Computations
a theta = 1.041826
Vesic Nc = 6.00
Nq = 1.10
549 kPa N gamma 0.07
183 kPa gamma' = 5.2
coefficient 1.3
coefficient 0.4
17,218 kN sigma zD' 26

Vesic Computation
Nc = 5.38
sc = 1.20
dc = 1.21
Nq = 1.09
sq = 1.02
dq = 1.02
N gamma 0.07
s gamma = 0.60
d gamma = 1.00
B/L = 1
k= 0.515464

W sub f 0