Soil anchors are commonly used as foundation systems for structures requiring uplift or lateral resistances

such as transmission towers

sheet pile walls and foundations of floating offshore platforms. This paper applies displacement finite element analysis to estimate the ultimate pullout capacity of pre-embedded inclined strip anchors in normally consolidated (NC) clay. Results are presented in the familiar form of break-out factors

which are based on various soil strength profiles

anchor embedment ratios and pullout inclined angles. The influences of the soil self weight

soil strength gradient and anchor base type on the pullout capacity are discussed. The continuous pullout analysis

in which Remeshing and Interpolation Technique with Small Strain model (RITSS) is applied

shows that the ratio of the vertical stress to the soil shear strength plays an important role in the separation underneath the plate when vented base is assumed.