Becker D E 1996 Eighteenth Canadian Geotechnical Colloquium Limit States Design For Foundations Part 1 An Overview Of The Foundation Design Process Can Geot Jnl 33 956 983
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Eighteenth Canadian Geotechnical Colloquium
This paper examines the foundation design process in terms of level of safety associated with current state-of-practice, sources of uncertainty and how they are handled, importance of engineering judgement and experience, and the role of codes of practice. Working stress, limit states, and reliability-based design approaches are described and discussed in terms of their historical development, fundamental bases and differences, advantages, and limitations. Limit states design considers separately the two class es of ultimate and serviceability limit states using partial factors of safety. The European factored strength approach and the North American factored overall resistance approach are compared and discussed. The factored resistance approach is a logical extension of working stress design and has the significant advantage that it reflects not only uncertainty in strength, but also in theoretical models, site conditions, construction tolerances, and failure mechanisms. The partial load and resistance factors are interrelated and are a function of characteristic values. A consistent, rational basis for the selection of the geotechnical characteristic value is required. The use of a conservatively assessed mean value is recommended, and an approach for its interpretation is presented.
Eighteenth Canadian Geotechnical Colloquium
The geotechnical engineering profession in Canada is in the process of evaluating limit states design (LSD) for its incorporation into codes of practice for foundation engineering to provide a consistent design approach between geotechnical and structural engineers. This paper describes the work carried out for the initial development of LSD for foundations in the National Building Code of Canada. A load and resistance factor design approach, based on a factored overall geotechnical resistance, is used. The resistance factors for the ultimate limit states of bearing capacity and sliding of shallow and deep foundations are derived from a direct calibration with working stress design (WSD) and from a reliability analysis. The resistance factors derived from both approaches are consistent with each other and provide a reasonably constant reliability index of about 3.0 to 3.5. A relationship is presented that relates the reliability index to a global factor of safety and resistance factor. Design examples are provided that show that the proposed LSD produces designs that are comparable with those produced by traditional WSD. The importance of serviceability limit states is discussed, and the items that require further study and research work to refine code calibration are identified.
Basics of Foundation Design
The "Red Book" presents a background to conventional foundation analysis and design. The text is not intended to replace the much more comprehensive 'standard' textbooks, but rather to support and augment these in a few important areas, supplying methods applicable to practical cases handled daily by practising engineers and providing the basic soil mechanics background to those methods. It concentrates on the static design for stationary foundation conditions. Although the topic is far from exhaustively treated, it does intend to present most of the basic material needed for a practising engineer involved in routine geotechnical design, as well as provide the tools for an engineering student to approach and solve common geotechnical design problems.