Abstract:
THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT STRESSES UNDER FOUNDATIONS ARE VERTICAL PRESSURE AND THE MAXIMUM SHEARING STRESS. A SIMPLIFIED METHOD IS GIVEN FOR DETERMINING THE MAXIMUM SHEARING STRESS AT A POINT OF A SEMI-INFINITE ELASTICALLY ISOTROPIC BODY LOADED AT ITS SURFACE BY A UNIFORMLY DISTRIBUTED UNIT LOAD ACTING ON AN ARBITRARY AREA. THE INFLUENCE OF POISSONS' RATIO, ALTHOUGH NOT CONSTANT FOR SOILS, IS SHOWN WITH A CONCENTRATED LOAD AND A UNIFORMLY LOADED AREA.
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