FINITE ELEMENT APPLICATION FOR MODIFIED CAM CLAY MODEL TO ANALYZE SILTY CLAY SOIL UNDER STRIP FOOTING USING MATLAB

Abstract

In this paper, the nonlinear behavior of soil has been studied. For this purpose, the modified Cam clay model has been employed. The foundation taken for this study is a strip footing of width (B=2.0 m) resting on the surface of silty clay soil. A two-dimensional finite element problem has been taken as a plane strain problem. The displacements and stresses under the strip footing during applied incremental loading sequences has been estimated by a program written in MATLAB. The influences of incremental loading, width of footing, and depth of footing are considered in this paper.