Discussion of “Bearing Capacity of Shallow Footings in Simulated Lunar Environments Using Centrifuge Tests” by Hey-Rim Lee, Heon-Joon Park, and Dong-Soo Kim

Abstract

The authors have presented an interesting paper dealing with the effects of footing size and gravity on the bearing capacity using centrifuge modeling. A simple discussion is presented here related to (1) low-gravity simulation and gravity and size effects, and (2) interpretation of ultimate bearing capacity in the original paper.