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Adhesion between footing and soil 1

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JStructsteel

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Aug 22, 2002
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All i have data wise is that the adhesion between footing and soil is 2400 psf, and undrained cohesion is 3000pdf. I am trying to correlate that to a sliding coefficient. Whats the best approach to this?
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Commonly used values for adhesion , values from 0.6 to 0.8c .
 
In the case of a long-term horizontal load you would use a drained coefficient for the interface for which tan delta could be 0.3-0.35.
For short-term loads, undrained strength and adhesion...I have seen this taken as 1 (i.e. adhesion = Su) or as 0.5-0.8 as HTURKAK suggested for a sliding check on shallow foundations, although I personally don't see why it should really be any different from using an adhesion factor for an undrained pile analysis (where you have 1-1.1 for a low Su of 20-25kpa which scales down following a linear or curved trend to say 0.2-0.3 for Su=200 kPa, the problem is just rotated in a different direction.
 
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