Question: 2 . [ 7 0 points ] You are a staff engineer for a local geotechnical engineering firm. As part of the geotechnical exploration for

2.[70 points] You are a staff engineer for a local geotechnical engineering firm. As part of the geotechnical exploration for a project, several subsurface tests have been conducted. You are given the results of one traditional soil boring with Standard Penetration Testing (SPT). The results of this boring, labeled as B-2, are presented on page 3 of this assignment. Based on testing of collected soil samples, the encountered soils have the unit weights listed in Table 1(Note that two ML layers have a same unit weight, so are the two CH layers; and the soil layers listed in the Table aren't meant to represent the actual layer sequence or order).
Table 1. Summary of Soil Unit Weights from Boring B-2.
NOTE: Assume the asphalt and base course layers are remowed and replaced with material identical to that underneath them.
2a. Determine the total, pore pressure, and effective stresses in the soils from the ground surface to the bottom of the borehole (i.e., a depth of 75 ft ). Provide a plot of these stresses with depth. [30 points]
2 b . The figure below presents the general cross-section of two planned footings at your project site. [40 points]
The project structural engineer has given you design loads of 90 kips for the columns and 7 kips per linear foot for the wall loads, respectively. Refer to Boring B-2 for the soil profile profile at both footing locations.
- Determine the change in vertical effective stresses (i.e., induced vertical stresses) at the locations under the center of the footings using Boussinesq, in 0.5 B increments to a depth of 5 times the footing width (i.e., at depths of \(0.5\mathrm{~B},\mathrm{~B},1.5\mathrm{~B},2\mathrm{~B},\ldots,5\mathrm{~B}\)).(Hint: Column footing corresponds to uniform rectangular loading while the wall load corresponds to uniform strip loading: I is convenient to use a table to carry out your calculations)
2 . [ 7 0 points ] You are a staff engineer for a

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