5. Special cases
5.1 Overloads on the ground surface
Coulomb's method (see § 3.1 ) is well suited to all cases of overload (uniform, non-uniform, point), using Culmann's graphical method.
In the simple case of a uniform vertical surcharge q, all methods can be used, in particular Rankine's method (see §...
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- AFNOR Eurocode 7 : Calcul géotechnique. - NF EN 1997-1 AFNOR - 2005
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