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  title info:
    title: Load tests on five large spread footings on sand and evaluation of prediction methods
  name:
    name part: Gibbens, Robert Melvin.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1995
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: remote
    extent: xviii, 331 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: a similar manner at the same general location where the soil
  abstract: are generally conservative and exhibit significant scatter;
  abstract: as many as fifty years ago. These design techniques were
  abstract: been used more readily in engineering. Today, this lack of
  abstract: being based more on intuition and experience than on
  abstract: consisted of fairly uniform silty fine sand underlain by
  abstract: developed in the early stages of foundation engineering and
  abstract: engineering profession's lack of trust in the use of spread
  abstract: footings. For this study, five spread footings with sizes
  abstract: foundations are often based on figures and formulas developed
  abstract: full scale load test data is partly responsible for the
  abstract: full scale load tests on shallow foundations for pure
  abstract: great engineering projects. For years, the idea of performing
  abstract: lack merit as they have been utilized in the design of many
  abstract: never before seen for spread footings. A complete summary of
  abstract: penetration. The footings were all constructed and tested in
  abstract: ranging from I to 3 m square were load tested to 150 mm of
  abstract: research has not been popular and deep pile foundations have
  abstract: scientific research. This is not to say that these methods
  abstract: stiff clay at a depth of 11 m. To the author's knowledge, the
  abstract: testing program described in this work is of a magnitude
  abstract: The design techniques for many of today's modem shallow
  abstract: the project and its results can be found in Section 6.
  note: by Robert Melvin Gibbens III.
  note: "Major subject: Civil Engineering".
  note: Vita.
  note: Also available online.
  note: Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
  note: M.S. Texas A&M University 1995.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Major civil engineering
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1995-THESIS-G53
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      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1995-THESIS-G53
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    record creation date: 960813
    record change date: 20220103134753.0
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