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Abstract
The ultimate bearing capacity of a foundation is one of
the major problems of soil mechanics. Loads from structures
are transmitted to the foundations, in general, as inclined
eccentric loads, the case of vertical concentric loading is
a special one. Most of the available theoretical and exper
imental investigations of the general case of inclined
eccentric loading of footings concern the case of inclined
loading with positive eccentricity, i.e. the load eccentri
city is in the direction of the horizontal component of the
applied load. Less attention has been paid to the case of
negative eccentricity.
In the present work different cases of footing loading
were. experimentally and theoretically investigated. Series
of loading tests, up to failure, were performed on footing
models. The test results enabled to study the effect of
footing shape, surcharge intensity, relative density of
sand, load eccentricity and load inclination on the ulti
mate vertical bearing capacity of shallow footings. Differ
ent patterns of
failure surfaces underneath the footing,
based on the observed surface movements of soil around the
footing models during the experiments, were assumed anc
theoretical analysis of the.bearing capacity problem of the
shallow footings was made.