Hi all,
In order to find the allowable bearing capacity of the footing, we can use prescribed displacement (25mm) and fins as shown below.
But here it represents the strip footing as length inside the model is infinite. Based on the pressure bulb, the extension of pressure for square footing less (we normally considered 0.2q as limit) when compare to the strip footing.
So please is any correlation to convert the obtained bearing pressure to square or rectangular footing? (I'm using only Plaxis 2D).
Thanks.
Dear Nitharshan,
In fact you're showing the conversion in the last picture. You have the analytical Boussinesq solution for a strip footing and for a square footing, hence the conversion is the ratio between the two. You may need some sheets of paper to write down and clean up the equations a bit...
With kind regards,
Dennis Waterman