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    SETTLEMENT OF SHALLOW FOUNDATIONS ON GRANULAR SOILS Final Report by Alan J. Lutenegger, Associate Professor Don J. DeGroot, Assistant Professor Geotechnical Engineering Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Report of Research Conducted for ‘Massachusetts Highway Department ‘Transportation Research Project Contract #6332, Task Order #4 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS TRANSPORTATION CENTER COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, MA 01003 June 30, 1995 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report presents the results of a research project undertaken to provide a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of the procedures used by the geotechnical engineering profession to estimate the settlement of shallow foundations resting on granular soil deposits. A comprehensive review was made of the literature in order to summarize all of the existing design methods available and to assemble reported case histories involving documented settlement of shallow foundations on granular deposits. A Windows-based PC operated software package was developed which incorporates the majority of the common design methods and allows the operator to predict settlement of a proposed foundation using the available methods. The results of the work are presented in this report and accompanying Appendices that comprise the overall final report. A stand alone Computer Program Users Appendix presents background of the programming language and a description of the software development. A users manual is included which provides step-by-step instructions on how to operate the software. The use of the software is illustrated in this Appendix by showing examples of calculated settlements for the FHWA footing load tests recently performed at Texas A&M University and other published cases. Additionally, in the final report a comparison is presented between the predicted settlement of a 3 m by 3 m footing using common SPT and CPT methods and actual settlement. A standalone Case Histories Appendix contains a compendium of reported case histories involving settlement of shallow foundations resting on granular soil deposits. The compilation is limited to cases involving field large scale plate and footing tests and full size structures and is separated into several categories including tanks, mats and rafts, small footings (tm

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