FOUNDATION AND RETAINING WALLS DESIGN
TOPIC (SOIL BEARING CAPACITY USING TERZAGHI’S EQUATION)
PROBLEM SET NO. 3 a. Ultimate Soil bearing capacity below the
footing
1. A square footing, 1.2 m, is embedded 1m
from the grade line. The unit weight of soil is b. Allowable bearing capacity
17.3 kN/m3, cohesion of 9.6 kPa and an angle of
c. Allowable load that the footing can carry
internal friction of 28 degrees. Assuming no
water table exist below the footing, determine
the ff:
4. A circular footing has a diameter of 1.2 m and
a. Ultimate Bearing Capacity assuming general the bottom of the footing is embedded 2.7 m
shear failure from the ground. Record shows that an existing
ground water table is located 1.3 m from the
b. Allowable Soil bearing capacity using factor of
ground.
safety of 2.5
𝛾𝑑 = 18.10 𝑘𝑁/𝑚3 𝛾𝑠𝑎𝑡 = 19.3 𝑘𝑁/𝑚3
c. Gross allowable load that the footing can
carry 𝑐 = 15.74 𝑘𝑃𝑎 ∅ = 20 𝑑𝑒𝑔
FS = 3.0
2. A square footing carries an allowable load of Assuming local shear failure, determine the ff.:
59130 kg including its own weight. The bottom
a. Ultimate Bearing Capacity
of the footing is situated 1 m below the ground
which coincides with the existing ground water b. Allowable bearing capacity
table. Assuming values of Nc = 35, Nq = 22 and
𝑘𝑔 c. Allowable load that the footing can carry
𝑁𝛾 = 19, 𝛾 = 1846 , 𝑐 = 1605 𝑘𝑔/𝑚2 ,
𝑚3
𝑘𝑔
𝛾𝑠𝑎𝑡 = 1965 , determine the ff:
𝑚3
a. Effective surcharge at the bottom of the
footing
b. Dimension of the footing when the FS = 3.0
c. Allowable Bearing Capacity
3. A square footing has a dimension of 1.3 m has
its bottom locater 0.9 m below the natural
grade line. Th existing groundwater table is
located 1.2 m below the natural grade line.
Assuming these values:
𝛾 = 17.6 𝑘𝑁/𝑚3 𝛾𝑠𝑎𝑡 = 19.7 𝑘𝑁/𝑚3
𝑐 = 12.2 𝑘𝑃𝑎 ∅ = 30 𝑑𝑒𝑔
FS = 3.0
Assuming General Shear failure, determine the
ff:
