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Nominal Geotechnical
Resistances
Overall Stability
Bearing Capacity
Settlement
Sliding
Overturning
Nominal Geotechnical
Resistances
Overall Stability
Vertical (Settlement) and Horizontal
Movements
Bearing Resistance
Sliding
Eccentricity Limits (Overturning)
Stabilize
Destabiliz
e
WT
l
N
WT
T
l
WT
N
T
N tan
cl
T
Resistance Factors
ASD Factors of Safety
Slope Supports
Abutment or
Other
Structure?
LRFD
Yes
No
1.5
1.3
1.8
1.5
FS
Stability Wrap-Up
Unfactored loads
Cohesive Soils
Cohesionless Soils
Impact on Structures
Elastic
Primary Consolidation
Secondary Settlement (Creep)
Hough Method
Settlement of Cohesionless Soils
'vo v
1
H Hc log
C'
'vo
Stress
Below
Footing
Boussinesq
Pressure
Isobars
Bf
ML
eB =
eL =
MB / P
ML / P
P
P
MB
ML
MB
P
q
B' L'
ML
MB
P
M
B'f
q = P/B'f
Footings on Rock
Trapezoidal Distribution
qmin
P
e
1 6
Bf
qmax
P
e
1 6
Bf
Bf
qmin
qmax
eBf
RESULTANT
Footings on Rock
Triangular Distribution
Bf
B1
2 P
qmax
Bf
3
e
2
qmax
eBf
B1/3
RESULTANT
Prevent Overturning
Footings on Soil
Footings on Rock
v = Df
B
3
B>Df
d
= C + tan
Soil Shear Strength
c
Pp
b I
a
b
c
Pp
b
2
1
a
b
2
3
d
METHOD/SOIL/CONDITION
Bearing
Resistance
Sliding
ep
RESISTANCE FACTOR
0.50
0.50
0.45
0.45
Footings on rock
0.45
0.55
0.90
0.80
0.85
Soil on soil
0.90
0.50
Footings on Rock
Footings on Rock
Strength Limit State
Settlement
controls
800
600
400
0
0.0
1.0
2.0
3.0
4.0
5.0
Nominal Bearing
Resistance (ksf)
12
16
20
Recommended Practice
Resistance
Sliding
ep
RESISTANCE
FACTOR
0.45
0.55
0.90
Cast-in-Place Concrete on
sand
0.80
Clay
0.85
Soil on soil
0.90
0.50