Bearing capacity factors

° Nc Nq Nγ
0 5.140 1.000 0.000
1 5.380 1.094 0.073
2 5.632 1.197 0.153
3 5.900 1.309 0.242
4 6.185 1.433 0.340
5 6.489 1.568 0.449
6 6.813 1.716 0.571
7 7.158 1.879 0.707
8 7.527 2.058 0.860
9 7.922 2.255 1.031
10 8.345 2.471 1.224
11 8.798 2.710 1.442
12 9.285 2.974 1.689
13 9.808 3.264 1.969
14 10.370 3.586 2.287
15 10.977 3.941 2.648
16 11.631 4.335 3.060
17 12.338 4.772 3.529
18 13.104 5.258 4.066
19 13.934 5.798 4.681
20 14.835 6.399 5.386
21 15.815 7.071 6.196
22 16.883 7.821 7.128
23 18.049 8.661 8.202
24 19.324 9.603 9.442
25 20.721 10.662 10.876
26 22.255 11.854 12.539
27 23.942 13.199 14.470
28 25.804 14.720 16.717
29 27.861 16.443 19.338
30 30.140 18.401 22.403
31 32.672 20.631 25.994
32 35.491 23.177 30.215
33 38.639 26.092 35.188
34 42.164 29.440 41.064
35 46.124 33.296 48.029
36 50.586 37.753 56.311
37 55.630 42.920 66.193
38 61.353 48.934 78.025
39 67.868 55.958 92.247
40 75.314 64.196 109.412
41 83.859 73.898 130.215
42 93.708 85.375 155.544
43 105.109 99.015 186.531
44 118.371 115.309 224.637
45 133.876 134.875 271.750
Prepared by Dr. Adnan Basma