Citation for published item:ysmnD eF F nd foltonD wF hF @PHHSA 9imple plstiityEsed predition of the undrined settlement of shllow irulr foundtions on lyF9D q¡ eotehniqueFD SS @TAF ppF RQSERRUF Further information on publisher's website: httpXGGdxFdoiForgGIHFITVHGgeotFPHHSFSSFTFRQS Publisher's copyright statement:Additional information:
Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. A kinematic plastic solution has been developed for the penetration of a circular footing into an incompressible soil bed. In this solution, the pattern of deformation around the footing is idealised by a simple plastic deformation mechanism. Strain-hardening behaviour and nonlinear stress-strain characteristics are incorporated. This application is different from conventional applications of plasticity theory as it can approximately predict both stresses and displacements under working conditions. This approach therefore provides a unified solution for design problems in which both serviceability and safety requirements are based directly on the stress-strain behaviour of the soil. The design strength that should limit the deformations can be selected from the actual stressstrain data recorded from a carefully specified location, and not derived using empirical safety factors. The validity of this design approach is examined against nonlinear finite element analyses and field measurements of foundations on clay under short-term loading.