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A long footing supports a wall carrying a load of 260kN per m. The soil at the
site is saturated clay having a undrained shear strength of 117kPa. The unit
weight of the clay is 22 kN/m³ and it is suspected thatoccasionally the water
table rises to the ground surface. What width in m (1 dp) offooting should be
used if a minimum factor of safety of 2.4 is required? The footingdepth is 1.2 m

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