• VERTICAL STRESS INCREASE DUE TO VARIOUS TYPE OF LOADING

• Stress Caused By Point Load

• Boussinesq (1883) solved the problem of stresses produced at any
point in a homogeneous, elastic, and isotropic medium as the result
of a point load applied on the surface of an infinitely large half-space.
• According to Figure 6.11, Boussinesq’s solution for normal stresses at
a point A caused by the point load P is
• VERTICAL STRESS INCREASE DUE TO VARIOUS TYPE OF LOADING
• Stress Caused By Point Load
• VERTICAL STRESS INCREASE DUE TO VARIOUS TYPE OF LOADING
• Stress Caused By Point Load
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• WESTERGAARD’S SOLUTION FOR VERTCAL STRESS DUE TO POINT
LOAD
• WESTERGAARD’S SOLUTION FOR VERTCAL STRESS DUE TO POINT
LOAD
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• WESTERGAARD’S SOLUTION FOR VERTCAL STRESS DUE TO POINT
LOAD
• In most practical problems of geotechnical engineering, Boussinesq’s
solution (Section 6.6) is preferred over Westergaard’s solution.
• For that reason, further development of stress calculation under
various types of loading will use Boussinesq’s solution in this chapter.
• VERTICAL STRESS CAUSED BY A LINE LOAD
• VERTICAL STRESS CAUSED BY A LINE LOAD
• Vertical Stress below the Center of a Uniformly Loaded Circular Area
• Using Boussinesq’s solution for vertical stress z caused by a point load
[Eq. (10.12)], one also can develop an expression for the vertical
stress below the center of a uniformly loaded flexible circular area.
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• Vertical Stress below the Center of a Uniformly Loaded Circular Area
• Vertical Stress at Any Point below a Uniformly Loaded Circular Area
• Vertical Stress Caused by a Rectangularly Loaded Area
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• Vertical Stress Caused by a Rectangularly Loaded Area
• Vertical Stress Caused by a Rectangularly Loaded Area
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• VERTICAL STRESS CAUSED BY A STRIP LOAD ( WITH FINITE WIDTH
AND FINITE LENGTH)
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• Vertical Stress Caused by a Vertical Strip Load (Finite Width and Infinite
Length)
• The fundamental equation for the vertical stress increase at a point in a
soil mass as the result of a line load (Section 10.5) can be used to
determine the vertical stress at a point caused by a flexible strip load of
width B. (See Figure 10.14.)
• Let the load per unit area of the strip shown in Figure 10.14 be equal to q.
• If we consider an elemental strip of width dr, the load per unit length of
this strip is equal to q dr. This elemental strip can be treated as a line load.
• Equation (10.15) gives the vertical stress increase dqz at point A inside the
soil mass caused by this elemental strip load. To calculate the vertical
stress increase, we need to substitute q dr for q and (x r) for x. So,
• Vertical Stress Caused by a Vertical Strip Load (Finite Width and
Infinite Length)
• Vertical Stress Caused by a Vertical Strip Load (Finite Width and
Infinite Length)
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• Vertical Stress Caused by a Vertical Strip Load (Finite Width and
Infinite Length)
• Linearly Increasing Vertical Loading on an Infinite Strip
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• Linearly Increasing Vertical Loading on an Infinite Strip
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