ABSTRACT
The undrained bearing capacity of strip footings on slopes has been investigated by several authors. Hansen (1961) and Vesic (1975) proposed empirical factors to take account of ground and load inclination, however their solutions apply only to footings at the crest of a slope and do not consider the case of “overall” slope stability type failure. Meyerhof (1957), Kusakabe et al. (1981) and Azzouz & Baligh (1983) presented solutions for vertical only loading which take account of the distance of the footing from the slope, but either do not consider other affecting parameters or are generally not conservative (Georgiadis, 2009).
