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| dc.contributor.author | Habte, Baye Asres | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-07T07:24:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-02-07T07:24:15Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-05 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/15643 | |
| dc.description.abstract | With a rapid growth of population in developing countries like Ethiopia, the constructions of residential and commercial developments are booming in urban areas. New developments are constructed adjacent to existing structures and even on difficult sloping or hilly terrains at the outskirts of urban areas due to limited land resource. In practice, the conventional bearing capacity equation is used to design shallow foundations. The conventional equation is expressed as the summation of three terms which are namely cohesion term, base width term or friction term, and depth term. The conventional equation fairly predicts the bearing capacity of footing on simple ground and load conditions. For cases of inclined load and/or sloping ground, the conventional equation is modified with modification factors which are simplified semi-analytical equations and have certain limitations. Despite the existing studies, the improvement of the semi-analytical modification factors to overcome their limitations and better predict the actual bearing capacity of footing on slope remains an active research area in the geotechnical engineering field. Ayalew (2021) carried out series of numerical simulations of footings on and adjacent to ground slopes but limited to only footings on ground surface without embedment. Thus, he was able to propose improved ground slope modification factors only for cohesion term and friction term. In this research, Ayalew’s (2021) numerical simulation study was extended for footings with embedment depth. The simulations were carried out for pure cohesive soil in undrained condition and pure cohesionless soil in drained condition for various combinations of slope angle, setback distance, cohesion, angle of internal friction and embedment depth. The simulation results from this research were used to propose improved ground slope modification factor for depth term. For the cases considered in this study, it was obtained that the effect of slope on the failure mechanism and bearing capacity of a square footing diminishes beyond a critical setback distance to footing width ratio of 2.5. The proposed improved ground slope modification factor for depth term was compared with the existing modification factors in literature in predicting the simulations data. The proposed model shows significant improvement in predicting both the trend and values of the simulations data in this research. Keywords: Square footing, Bearing capacity, Slope, Modification factor, 3D numerical model, Plaxis3D, | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Civil and Water Resources Engineering | en_US |
| dc.title | Numerical Investigation of Ground Slope Modification Factor for Depth Term of Conventional Bearing Capacity Equation | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
