07-Str-B1
Worked solutions to 3 past sittings (2013–2015), 28 questions. Pick a sitting, or start from a topic below.
Topics across the sittings
Topics that come up in more than one sitting, taken from the headings of our worked solutions. A topic counts once per sitting.
- Overturning (2 sittings): May 2013 Q9 · Undated paper Q8
Questions by sitting
May 2015
- Question 1: Why Shaft Adhesion Approaches the Undrained Strength in Soft Clay but Falls Far Below It in Stiff Clay
- Question 2: Whether the Bearing Capacity of a Strip Footing on Sand Stays Constant Through the Design Life
- Question 3: Earth Pressure as a Function of Wall Movement, and How Passive Pressure Is Generated
- Question 4: Site Investigation Plan for Pile Foundations, Ten-Storey Hotel on Sand with a Shallow Water Table
- Question 5: Investigation and Strength Parameters for a Highway Embankment Built of Highly Expansive Soil
- Question 6: Ultimate Bearing Capacity of a 1.5 m Square Footing on Sand Beneath 1.5 m of Clay
- Question 7: Load Carrying Capacity of a 4 × 4 Pile Group in Soft Clay
- Question 8: Consolidation Settlement of a 1.5 m × 2.5 m Footing Over a Normally Consolidated Clay
- Question 9: Factor of Safety Against Overturning of a Gravity Retaining Wall by Coulomb's Theory
May 2013
- Question 1: Load Transfer in a Pile Through Weak Soils to a Competent Stratum
- Question 2: Practical Limitations of the SPT in Foundation Design
- Question 3: Pile Load Tests Alongside the α, β and λ Methods
- Question 4: Short-Term Stability of a Clay Earth Dam
- Question 5: Settlement as the Governing Design Criterion
- Question 6: Factor of Safety of a Two-Layer Slope by the Method of Slices
- Question 7: Anchored Sheet Pile Wall by the Free Earth Support Method
- Question 8: Stress Increase by the 2:1 Method and Consolidation Settlement
- Question 9: Overturning and Sliding Stability of a Cantilever Retaining Wall
- Question 10: Bearing and Skin Resistance of a Belled Drilled Pier
Undated paper
- Question 1: Site investigation equipment for a foundation in sand
- Question 2: Factor of safety for the short-term stability of a cut in saturated clay
- Question 3: Is the undrained friction angle zero for both soils?
- Question 4: Safe bearing capacity against allowable bearing capacity in dense sand
- Question 5: When to prefer a mat foundation
- Question 6: Footing size from the SPT profile, and Terzaghi bearing capacity
- Question 7: Design axial capacity of a belled drilled shaft
- Question 8: Overturning and sliding stability of a cantilever retaining wall
- Question 9: Anchored sheet pile wall by free earth support