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Large-scale shallow foundation load tests on soft clay – At the National Field Testing Facility (NFTF), Ballina, NSW, Australia

Large-scale shallow foundation load tests on soft clay – At the National Field Testing Facility (NFTF), Ballina, NSW, Australia
Large-scale shallow foundation load tests on soft clay – At the National Field Testing Facility (NFTF), Ballina, NSW, Australia

This paper presents field test data from four instrumented rigid square pad foundations on soft clay that were brought to failure under concentric vertical loading. The test programme comprised two unconsolidated undrained (UU) foundation tests as well as two consolidated undrained (CU) tests. In the latter case the two foundations were preloaded to a proportion of the UU capacity and the soil was allowed to consolidate before being brought to undrained failure. In this paper, the site works and testing procedures are presented along with the load- and time-settlement responses of all four foundations. Horizontal stress and pore pressure data are presented for the two CU tests. The undrained and consolidated undrained load-settlement responses are shown to agree well with theoretical and numerical predictions. Results from the UU tests were the subject of a prediction exercise, summarised in a companion paper presented in this special issue.

Field testing, Shallow foundations, Soft clay
0266-352X
253-268
Gaone, F.M.
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Gourvenec, S.
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Doherty, J.P.
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Doherty, J.P.
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Gaone, F.M., Gourvenec, S. and Doherty, J.P. (2018) Large-scale shallow foundation load tests on soft clay – At the National Field Testing Facility (NFTF), Ballina, NSW, Australia. Computers and Geotechnics, 93, 253-268. (doi:10.1016/j.compgeo.2017.05.008).

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This paper presents field test data from four instrumented rigid square pad foundations on soft clay that were brought to failure under concentric vertical loading. The test programme comprised two unconsolidated undrained (UU) foundation tests as well as two consolidated undrained (CU) tests. In the latter case the two foundations were preloaded to a proportion of the UU capacity and the soil was allowed to consolidate before being brought to undrained failure. In this paper, the site works and testing procedures are presented along with the load- and time-settlement responses of all four foundations. Horizontal stress and pore pressure data are presented for the two CU tests. The undrained and consolidated undrained load-settlement responses are shown to agree well with theoretical and numerical predictions. Results from the UU tests were the subject of a prediction exercise, summarised in a companion paper presented in this special issue.

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2017 Computers and Geotechnics 93_253-268 Gaone et al._Interpretation of Foundation settlement tests
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e-pub ahead of print date: 6 December 2017
Published date: 1 January 2018
Keywords: Field testing, Shallow foundations, Soft clay

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Local EPrints ID: 419709
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/419709
ISSN: 0266-352X
PURE UUID: 3e35bcb7-ecb3-40a3-823a-7b8f66e82497
ORCID for S. Gourvenec: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2628-7914

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Date deposited: 19 Apr 2018 16:30
Last modified: 18 Mar 2024 05:17

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Author: F.M. Gaone
Author: S. Gourvenec ORCID iD
Author: J.P. Doherty

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