Ultimate Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundation under Eccentrically Inclined Load - Review Paper

Abstract

Every civil engineering structure, whether it is a building, bridge, highway pavement, or railway track, will in general have a superstructure and a foundation. The function of the foundation is to receive the loads from the superstructure and transmit safely them to the soil or rock below. The design of shallow foundation (i.e. the plan dimensions of the foundation) is accomplished by satisfying two requirements: (1) bearing capacity and (2) settlement. Bearing capacity refers to the ultimate, i.e., the maximum load the soil can bear or sustain under given circumstances. A lot of work from a long time is going on for finding the bearing capacity of the soil and the settlement of the footing. This paper reviews the work done so far on these.