Research Article

Importance of Distribution Type on Bearing Capacity of an Embedded Foundation in Spatially Varying Soils

Figure 6

The CDFs of the bearing capacity factor Nc of the foundation for stationary and nonstationary cases ((a, d) Lognormal distribution; (b, e) Gamma distribution; (c, f) Beta distribution). (a–c) lh = 60 m; (d–f) lh = 6 m.
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