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Undrained Bearing Capacity of Strip Footings Under Inclined Load on Non-homogeneous Clay Underlain by a Rough Rigid Base

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This paper aims to study the undrained bearing capacity of strip footings under inclined load on clay with linear increase of cohesion with depth underlain by a rigid base. The elasto-plastic finite element analyses through PLAXIS 2D 2012 code are carried out for rough footings. The results are presented in terms of the bearing capacity factor N′c with the inclination factor ic and failure envelopes. A new prediction of the yield locus for strip footings on non-homogeneous clay underlain by a rigid base is presented in this study. The numerical results are compared with the available publications in the literature.

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  1. Civil Engineering Research Laboratory LRGC, Biskra University, BP 145, 07000, Biskra, Algeria

    Mohamed Younes Ouahab, Abdelhak Mabrouki, Mekki Mellas & Djamel Benmeddour

  2. Head of Department of Civil Engineering, Tipaza University Center, 42000, Tipaza, Algeria

    Mohamed Younes Ouahab

  3. Université Paris-Est, Navier, Ecole des Ponts – CERMES 6-8 Avenue Blaise Pascal, Cité Descartes, Champs-sur-Marne, 77455, Marne-la-Vallée, Cedex 2, France

    Roger Frank

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Ouahab, M.Y., Mabrouki, A., Frank, R. et al. Undrained Bearing Capacity of Strip Footings Under Inclined Load on Non-homogeneous Clay Underlain by a Rough Rigid Base. Geotech Geol Eng 38, 1733–1745 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10706-019-01127-1

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