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In truly elastic foundation, the soil is assumed to be obey ____________

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In truly elastic foundation, the soil is assumed to be obey ____________

(a) Terzaghi’s theory

(b) Hooke’s law

(c) Skempton’s theory

(d) All of the mentioned

The question was asked in an internship interview.

My query is from IS Code of Practice for Design of Raft Foundations topic in section Shallow Foundations of Geotechnical Engineering II

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Right choice is (b) Hooke’s law

To explain: The soil in a simplified elastic foundation is assumed to be continuous elastic medium obeying Hooke’s law.

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