Use Tools→Bearing Capacity from the top toolbar to calculate the bearing capacity of shallow footings. Sand density is used for Robertson (1996) method. In all methods, average qc is calculated over a depth 1.5xB below the underside of the footing.


Meyerhof (1956) method: C =12.2 is used.

Tand et al. (1995) method: Rk value varies between 0.14 to 0.2 and NovoCPT uses C=0.17

CFEM refers to Canadian Foundation Engineering Manual.