EFFECT OF CONCENTRATED ECCENTRIC LOAD IN LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION OF RECTANGULAR PLATES ON ELASTIC FOUNDATION

Objectives: To study the effect of Relative Rigidity of soil interaction behaviour on the rectangular plates.Methods: Analysis was done for a rectangular footing subjected to the eccentric concentrated load in the longitudinal direction up to the middle one third of its longer span dimension, the loss of contact phenomena was analyzed by the finite element method using ANSYS 12.0 software and the Critical Relative Rigidity (CRR) values i.e. the relative rigidity (RR) at which the soil medium just starts experiencing loss of contact with the footing were obtained for various L/B (1.2 to 2.0) ratios up to the two way distribution. Findings: With the increase in the eccentricity of concentrated load the CRR values were decreased and as the L/B ratio increases, the CRR values increased. Improvements: Effect of Relative Rigidity of soil interaction behaviour concept can be extended to different types of plates like square, circular, and loss of contact phenomena should be analysed.