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The document discusses calculating vertical stress increases at various points in soil due to loads such as column footings, embankments, strip footings and point loads. It also includes questions about plotting stress variation and consolidation test results.

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Tutorial 5

The document discusses calculating vertical stress increases at various points in soil due to loads such as column footings, embankments, strip footings and point loads. It also includes questions about plotting stress variation and consolidation test results.

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Pulkit Garg
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1. The cross section and plan of a column footing are shown below.

Find the
increase in vertical stress produced by the column footing at point A.
2. Determine the stress increase at point A.

3. A 5 m-high embankment is to be constructed as shown below. If the unit weight


of compacted soil is 18.5 kN/m3, calculate the vertical stress solely due to the
embankment at A
4.

5. For a single concentrated load of 1000 kN acting on the ground surface,


construct an isobar for σz = 40 kN/m2
6. A strip footing 3 m wide is loaded on the ground surface with a pressure at 100
kN/m2. A 4 m thick, soft clay layer exists at a depth of 10 m below foundation.
Find the average increase in vertical stress at the top of clay layer under the
center line.
7. Estimate vertical stress increase at point A at depth of 3m below point A

8. Calculate the vertical stress in a soil mass at a depth of 5 m vertically below a


point load of 5000 kN acting near the surface. Plot the variation of vertical stress
with radial distance at depth of 5 m.
9. The following compression readings were obtained in an oedometer test on a
specimen of saturated clay (Gs =2.73). The initial thickness of the specimen was
19.0mm, and at the end of the test the water content was 19.8%. Plot the e–log
σ′ curve

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