Load and resistance factor design of shallow foundations against bearing failure
Load and resistance factor design of shallow foundations against bearing failure
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DOI:
10.1139/t08-061
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发表时间:
2008-10
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
G. Fenton;D. V. Griffiths;Xianyue Zhang
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作者:
G. Fenton;D. V. Griffiths;Xianyue Zhang
Shallow foundation designs are typically governed either by settlement, a serviceability limit state, or by bearing capacity, an ultimate limit state. While geotechnical engineers have been designing against these limit states for over half a century, it is only recently that they have begun to migrate towards reliability-based designs. At the moment, reliability-based design codes are generally derived through calibration with traditional working stress designs. To take advantage of the full potential of reliability-based design the profession must go beyond calibration and take geotechnical uncertainties into account in a rational fashion. This paper proposes a load and resistance factor design (LRFD) approach for the bearing capacity design of a strip footing, using load factors as specified by structural codes. The resistance factors required to achieve an acceptable failure probability are estimated as a function of the spatial variability of the soil and by the level of “understanding” of the soil p...