The bearing capacity of a soil describes how much weight can be placed on that soil before it collapses. The bearing capacity is often used in design of footings, retaining walls, earth works pads etc, and is a simple and effective description of the strength of a soil.
If you are a geotechnical technician or other building professional who has access to a Dynamic Cone Penetrometer (DCP) Test, you can use stability.com.au to get the Allowable Bearing Capacity of the soil, by entering the DCP blows into stability.com.au.
The bearing capacity is calculated using correlations from multiple university papers and industry bodies.