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This document discusses bearing capacity and shallow foundations. It provides the following key points: 1) Bearing capacity is the limiting pressure that a footing can support before failing. Shallow foundations have a depth to width ratio of less than 1. 2) There are two theoretical approaches to analyze bearing capacity - the lower bound and upper bound methods. 3) A simple analysis considers the stress state in the soil under and around the footing. The general bearing capacity formula considers sur
- Author
- Liban Halake
- Language
- EN