Insights from a shallow foundation load-settlement prediction exercise
Insights from a shallow foundation load-settlement prediction exercise
This paper describes an international exercise aimed at assessing the geotechnical engineering profession's ability to predict the response of shallow foundations on soft clay subjected to undrained loading. Predictions of bearing capacity varied by more than an order of magnitude and settlement by more than two orders of magnitude. Average and median predicted values deviated significantly from measured values. The results of this exercise highlight the need to develop tools to assist engineers to process site investigation data. The development of predictive models that connect directly to site investigation data is discussed.
Field tests, Prediction exercise, Shallow foundation, Soft clay
269-279
Doherty, J.P.
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Gourvenec, S.
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Gaone, F. M.
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1 January 2018
Doherty, J.P.
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Gourvenec, S.
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Gaone, F. M.
1e7ac06b-e536-4eb8-91b4-4cbbb132a082
Doherty, J.P., Gourvenec, S. and Gaone, F. M.
(2018)
Insights from a shallow foundation load-settlement prediction exercise.
Computers and Geotechnics, 93, .
(doi:10.1016/j.compgeo.2017.05.009).
Abstract
This paper describes an international exercise aimed at assessing the geotechnical engineering profession's ability to predict the response of shallow foundations on soft clay subjected to undrained loading. Predictions of bearing capacity varied by more than an order of magnitude and settlement by more than two orders of magnitude. Average and median predicted values deviated significantly from measured values. The results of this exercise highlight the need to develop tools to assist engineers to process site investigation data. The development of predictive models that connect directly to site investigation data is discussed.
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2017 Computers and Geotechnics 93_269-279 Doherty et al._Prediction exercise
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Accepted/In Press date: 1 April 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 6 December 2017
Published date: 1 January 2018
Keywords:
Field tests, Prediction exercise, Shallow foundation, Soft clay
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