In: Civil Engineering
A long footing supports a wall carrying a load of 260
kN per m. The soil at the
site is saturated clay having a undrained shear strength of 117
kPa. The unit
weight of the clay is 22 kN/m³ and it is suspected that
occasionally the water
table rises to the ground surface. What width in m (1 dp) of
footing should be
used if a minimum factor of safety of 2.4 is required? The footing
depth is 1.2 m