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Load tests on five large spread footings on sand and evaluation of prediction methods
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a similar manner at the same general location where the soil
are generally conservative and exhibit significant scatter;
as many as fifty years ago. These design techniques were
been used more readily in engineering. Today, this lack of
being based more on intuition and experience than on
consisted of fairly uniform silty fine sand underlain by
developed in the early stages of foundation engineering and
engineering profession's lack of trust in the use of spread
footings. For this study, five spread footings with sizes
foundations are often based on figures and formulas developed
full scale load test data is partly responsible for the
full scale load tests on shallow foundations for pure
great engineering projects. For years, the idea of performing
lack merit as they have been utilized in the design of many
never before seen for spread footings. A complete summary of
penetration. The footings were all constructed and tested in
ranging from I to 3 m square were load tested to 150 mm of
research has not been popular and deep pile foundations have
scientific research. This is not to say that these methods
stiff clay at a depth of 11 m. To the author's knowledge, the
testing program described in this work is of a magnitude
The design techniques for many of today's modem shallow
the project and its results can be found in Section 6.
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