Static stiffness of rigid foundation resting on elastic half-space using a Galerkin boundary element method

Buckling of beams and coatings of finite width in bilateral frictionless contact with an elastic half-space

“…is the distance between the points (x, y, 0) and ( y x , ˆ, 0), and E s is the equivalent elastic moduli of the half-space along the vertical direction z. Details on such modulus can be found in the recent contribution by Baraldi and Tullini (2020) and in references cited therein. However, for an isotropic substrate, the equivalent elastic moduli E s reduces to E soil /(1-2 soil ν ), where E soil and ν soil are Young modulus and Poisson ratio of the isotropic substrate; correspondingly, Eq.…”