A person walking in high heals can damages the floor by making small dimples in the floor since all their weight is concentrated on the tip of the high heal. It the person weighs 81 kg and the high of the tip of the high heal is 3.5 cm2, what is the force over the floor?

Use the profile illustrated for problem (1). assume that the layer of silty sand fill (sm) is placed over the entire site. estimate the thickness of the fill (h - in feet) that will cause the effective vertical stress at the center of the clay layer to increase by 517.5 pounds per square foot.