Abstract: The present paper contains a critical study of a number of foundation models as well as a further development of some of the ideas involved. Among others it is shown that the Pasternak ...

Abstract: Various methods for the determination of the foundation model parameters are reviewed. It is then shown that one of the four known methods is conceptually of questionable validity because according to it the model parameters ...

Abstract: The assessment is based on the analyses of pavement blowups presented by the writer and his coworkers Dallis and Shade. The introduction reviews briefly the various early attempts to clarify the blowup phenomenon. The next ...

Abstract: This review article presents a survey of analyses and tests of bearing capacity of floating ice covers when subjected to (1) Static loads of short duration, (2) Static loads of long duration, ...

Abstract: The instability of a rectangular solid in plane strain subjected axially to a constant pressure p and laterally to a constant hydrostatic pressure q is investigated; a modification of the ...

Abstract: A horizontal clamped plate is subjected to the weight of a liquid above it. When the free surface of the liquid coalesces with the plane of the undeformed upper surface of the plate, according ...