Journal
ACTA GEOTECHNICA
Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages 747-755Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11440-018-0630-0
Keywords
Bearing capacity; DLO; Failure mechanism; Voids
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51378345, 41630641]
- EPSRC [EP/P013848/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The presence of underground voids has an adverse influence on the performance of shallow foundations. In this study, the bearing capacity and failure mechanism of footings placed on cohesive-frictional soils with voids are evaluated using discontinuity layout optimization. By introducing a reduction coefficient, a set of design charts that can be directly applied to the classical bearing capacity formulation is presented. The results indicate that the undrained bearing capacity with voids is sensitive to soil weight and cohesion, as both the bearing capacity and stability issues exist in the problem. The failure mechanism is directly related to a variety of soil properties, the locations of single voids, and the horizontal distance between two voids. The presence of voids has a more dominant effect on c-phi soils compared to that on undrained soil. An interpretation of the critical and adverse locations for single-void and dual-void cases with various soil strengths is presented.
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