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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to compare the methods used by the European countries to evaluate the bearing capacity of shallow foundations. Comparisons of several formulations of bearing capacity factors, depth and shape factors, load inclination and eccentricity factors, as well as values of these factors, are presented. This study has deliberately been restricted to methods using the bearing capacity factors Nc, Nq and Nγ: other methods exist and are used, but few of them are in common use in all European countries (for example, the pressiometric method is used almost exclusively in France), and consequently the comparison would be awkward. The most important conclusion is that the evaluated bearing capacity depends highly on the country. Therefore, bearing capacity needs to be better understood using new parametric and numerical analyses.
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The objectives of the Association shall be the promotion of co-operation among geotechnical societies in SE Asia; and the assistance to member societies who have limited number of members. Now there is only one combined web titled: AGSSEA-SEAGS. SEAGS & AGSSEA encourage the submission of scholarly and practice-oriented articles to its journal. The journal is published quarterly. Both sponsors of the journal, the Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society and the Association of Geotechnical Societies in Southeast Asia, promote the ideals and goals of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechhnical Engineering in fostering communications, developing insights and enabling the advancement of the geotechnical engineering discipline.