Cyclic settlement of footings of different shapes resting on clayey soil

Abstract EN

An experimental investigation is carried out to investigate the impact of the footing shape, when rested on clayey soil under cyclic loading condition.

The model footings used in this study are circular, square and the area of footings is fixed.

Cyclic load test is carried out on the cohesive soil with three undrained shear strengths (20 kPa, 40 kPa and 70 kPa).

Two depths of foundation embedment (at surface and 5 cm) to know the effect of the depths of the foundations on the change of settlement and total vertical stress and two rates of loading (3 mm/sec and 6 mm/sec) are used.

It has been observed that the bearing capacity varies in increasing order as Solid, Circular and Square.

It is found that the cyclic settlement in the square foundation is less than the circular foundation.

The results reveal that the shape of the footing has a significant effect on its bearing capacity and the settlement characteristics.

The vertical stress reaches a constant value which is greater below circular footing and it is about (70.9 - 92.7) % greater than below square footing.