Immediate Settlement of Shallow Foundations Bearing on Clay

Immediate and long-term settlement checks are an integral part of foundation design. Therefore, reasonably accurate estimates of the immediate settlement of shallow foundations bearing on clay are necessary, particularly for highly plastic clays or organic soils, for which the immediate settlement may be significant. This immediate settlement is due entirely to the distortion of the clay underneath the shallow foundations because, in the short term, there is no opportunity for change in the clay volume. Since soil stress-strain response is nonlinear even at small strains, design procedures based on linear elasticity cannot accurately predict soil deformations. Hence, an immediate settlement analysis that takes soil nonlinearity into account is needed. In this paper, finite-element analysis is used to develop design charts that can be used to estimate the immediate settlement of axially loaded square, rectangular, and strip footings bearing on clay. The clay is modeled with a simple nonlinear constitutive ...

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