Abstract

As developed during the past decades, the yield design theory provides an approach to the stability analysis of civil engineering structures under seismic conditions which has been often used, explicitly or implicitly. New results related to circular footings resting on a purely cohesive soil, taking into account the horizontal inertia forces, are presented in this paper for practical applications to the safety coefficient to be applied to the vertical load when designing seismic foundations.

Keywords

seismic bearing capacity, circular footings, yield design, external approach, interaction diagrams, Tresca criterion

Milestones

Received: 11 January 2008
Revised: 29 June 2008
Accepted: 29 June 2008
Published: 12 April 2009

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