The Behaviour of Uniformly Loaded Piled Strip Footings

Graphical results are presented for load taken by piles, maximum displacement and differential displacement, and maximum positive and negative bending moments, due to uniformly distributed loading applied to a smooth strip footing which is supported by piles and a very deep homogeneous isotropic elastic foundation. The results presented are for piles whose length/diameter ratio is 50, footings whose width is 5 pile diameters and an incompressible foundation. Corrections for other pile length/diameter ratios, other footing widths and soil Poisson’s ratio of zero, are discussed.