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The Importance Of Amount Of Settlement In Determining The Bearing Capacity Of Soils, Selçuk Alemdağ, Aslıhan Ci̇noğlu, Elif Gacener

Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration

In this study, it is aimed to determine safe bearing capacity of soils, which are out cropped around Tamzi and Akcakale villages located in Gumushane, providing allowable settlement conditions for an optimum foundation design. To define the geotechnical properties of soils, three trenches were dug and two seismic refraction with two Multichannel Spectral Analysis of Surface Waves (MASW) were carried out in each research area. Sieve analyses, shear box tests, triaxial compression tests were carried out on disturbed and undisturbed samples taken from the trenches. Seismic velocities of the soils are determined by seismic refraction and MASW methods. While determining …