Which outcome results when medieval fortifications experience undermining?

💡 Explanation

Undermining removes the soil supporting a wall leading to a Bearing Capacity Failure because the distributed load exceeds soil strength; therefore structural elements buckle rather than experiencing incremental deformation since lateral support vanished.

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