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The problem of a rectangular footing or a strip footing resting on a nonhomogeneous elastic half-space is studied in this paper. The fundamental solution of the nonhomogeneous half-space is separated into the fundamental solution of the homogeneous half-space and a function related to the nonhomogeneity of the half-space. The contact region is discretized using an adaptive scheme that accounts for the possible edge and corner singularities. A rigid strip footing and a rigid rectangular footing are treated first to ascertain the convergence of the solution procedure and to provide information requisite for the flexibility study. The title problem is transformed into the solution of three coupled two-dimensional singular integral equations. The contact regions are found iteractively since the problem is nonlinear.