By using the sampled values, a pad footing is designed to conform to a serviceability criterion, as would be achieved in practice. A benchmark design is also undertaken making use of the complete knowledge of the soil profile. This design is achieved using a numerical process involving a 3D ...
The paper presents an optimal design of pad footing, based on multi-parametric mixed-integer non-linear programming (MINLP) optimization. For this purpose, the MINLP optimization model PADFOOT was developed. The model comprises an accurate objective function of the structure production costs, subjected...
In this study, a Genetic Algorithm (GA) has been developed in order to find the optimum geometrical sizes in pad footing design. In the solutions of pad footing sizes found by manually or/and software, there is a required assumption of pad footing sizes held by an experienced designer at ...