“…Many studies are available considering soil variability in the settlement analysis of foundations. Some of these include Vanmarcke (1977), Baker (1984), Righetti and Harrop-Williams (1988), Baker et al (1989), Baker and Zeitoun (1990), Zeitoun and Baker (1991), Mahmoud and El Tawil (1992), Paice et al (1996), Yeh and Rahman (1998), Kulhawy (1999a, 1999b), Bauer and Pula (2000), Guo and Weitsman (2002), Fenton and Griffiths (2002), Sivakugan and Johnson (2004), , , Niandou and Breysse (2007), Kashyap (2008, 2009), Fenton (2009), Jimenez andSitar (2009), Table 1 Summary of literature pertaining to deterministic analysis of shallow foundations on layered soil…”