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Foundation Engineering

Foundation Engineering is the subdiscipline of geotechnical engineering that applies soil and rock mechanics principles to the design and analysis of foundation systems that transfer structural loads to the underlying ground or rock.

13.3K

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561.5K

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19.8K

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3.5K

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13.3K

Soil mechanics and plastic analysis or limit design

D. C. Drucker, William Prager · Quarterly of Applied Mathematics · 1952 · 4K citations · Full text

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Pile foundation analysis and design

International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences & Geomechanics Abstracts · 1981 · 2K citations

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Soil moduli and damping factors for dynamic response analysis

Journal of Terramechanics · 1972 · 1.3K citations

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Manual on estimating soil properties for foundation design

F.H. Kulhawy, Paul W. Mayne · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1990 · 1.2K citations

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Correlation for Design of Laterally Loaded Piles in Soft Clay

Hudson Matlock · Offshore Technology Conference · 1970 · 1.2K citations

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Authors

19.8K

  1. MR
    Mark Randolph

    The University of Western Australia, Australia

    133 publications · 13.5K citations

    62

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  2. MH
    M. Hesham El Naggar

    Western University, Canada

    130 publications · 6.1K citations

    47

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  3. GT
    G. T. Houlsby

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    60 publications · 7K citations

    47

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  4. GG
    George Gazetas

    National Technical University of Athens, Greece

    81 publications · 7.5K citations

    46

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  5. HG
    H G Poulos

    The University of Sydney, Australia

    93 publications · 6.4K citations

    42

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Institutions

3.5K

  1. The University of Western Australia

    Perth, Australia

    68 h-index

    592 publications

    31.5K citations

  2. Zhejiang University

    Hangzhou, China

    55 h-index

    666 publications

    28.3K citations

  3. Tongji University

    Shanghai, China

    54 h-index

    899 publications

    33.3K citations

  4. Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

    Bengaluru, India

    50 h-index

    213 publications

    11.4K citations

  5. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    50 h-index

    199 publications

    16.8K citations

  6. Western University

    London, Canada

    49 h-index

    261 publications

    13.6K citations

  7. Hohai University

    Nanjing, China

    48 h-index

    587 publications

    20.4K citations

  8. The University of Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    47 h-index

    178 publications

    13.5K citations

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Venues

  1. Géotechnique

    509 publications · 43.8K citations

    111

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  2. 108

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  3. Canadian Geotechnical Journal

    641 publications · 36.9K citations

    92

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  4. Computers and Geotechnics

    530 publications · 26K citations

    81

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  5. Journal of Geotechnical Engineering

    244 publications · 16.8K citations

    73

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See also

Foundation Engineering

Foundation Types

Design Methods

Failure Mechanisms

Site Investigation

Ground Improvement