Rodrigo Salgado

TL;DR: In this article, a penetration resistance theory was used to quantify chamber size effect, to investigate the factors it depends on, and to show how to correct calibration chamber test penetration resistance values to free field conditions.

TL;DR: The bearing capacity of open-ended piles is affected by the degree of soil plugging, which is quantified by the incremental filling ratio ~IFR!. In as discussed by the authors, the authors investigate the effect of IFR on pile load capacity.

TL;DR: In this article, the bearing capacity of strip, square, circular and rectangular foundations in sand is determined for frictional soils following an associated flow rule using finite-element limit analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the finite element method to determine the vertical bearing capacity of strip and circular footings resting on a sand layer, using an elastic-perfectly plastic Mohr-Coulomb constitutive model.

TL;DR: In this article, a cavity expansion-based theory for calculation of cone penetration resistance qc in sand is presented, which includes a completely new analysis to obtain cone resistance from cavity limit pressure, and a simpler way to estimate qc based on direct reading from charts in terms of relative density, stress state, and critical-state friction angle.