Page Layout ⇒ Big gap in at the end of the page - what am I doing wrong?

[lukaszskowron96]

Hi,

I encoutered this strange problem. For some reason LATEX decided to leave a big gap at the end of that page and I REALLY need to put this circled text into that gap as it distorts the layout of my next pages and ultimately almost whole document. Please, can you help me fix this?

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This is the part of code that generates those pages:

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\begin{table}[!ht]
\begin{center}
\centering
\vspace{5mm}
\begin{tabular}{|c|C{0.26\textwidth}|C{0.26\textwidth}|C{0.26\textwidth}|}
\hline
& \multirow{2}{*}{\(\frac{kB}{s_{um}}=0\)} & \multirow{2}{*}{\(\frac{kB}{s_{um}}=2\)} & \multirow{2}{*}{\(\frac{kB}{s_{um}}=5\)} \\
& &  & \\ \hline
\(N_{P}=1\) &\begin{center} \includegraphics[width=0.26\textwidth]{placeholder3} \end{center} & \begin{center}\includegraphics[width=0.26\textwidth]{placeholder3}\end{center}  & \begin{center}\includegraphics[width=0.26\textwidth]{placeholder3}\end{center}\\ \hline
\(N_{P}=4\) &  \begin{center}\includegraphics[width=0.26\textwidth]{placeholder3}\end{center} & \begin{center}\includegraphics[width=0.26\textwidth]{placeholder3}\end{center} &  \begin{center}\includegraphics[width=0.26\textwidth]{placeholder3}\end{center}\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\caption{\label{tab:table-name}Side views of failure mechanisms}
\end{table}
\subsection{3.5 Circular Foundations with Central Square Perforation}
Another interesting case is a combination between two previous cases - a ring foundation with central square perforation. 
No signs of this foundation analyses have been found in the literature - one of the reasons why it has been decided to look at it. The basic notation for and maximal theoretical perforation ratio is as shown below. The imposed soil-foundation interface is rough.

Where I defined C as:

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\newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{#1}}

[lukaszskowron96]

OK, I sorted this out... Just got rid of \vspace{5mm}.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You could remove further additional space by replacing \begin{center} ... \end{center} by a simple \centering command, within the table environment.

Stefan

[lukaszskowron96]

Stefan,

It doesn't seem to work, where exactly I need to put /centering ?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Directly after \begin{table}[!ht], so:

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\begin{table}[!ht]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{...}
...
\end{tabular}
\caption{...}
\end{table}

The reason is, that \begin{center} … \end{center} is for "displayed" centered text, that comes with a whitespace before and after it. \centering does it without additional spacing. The effect of \centering is limited by the table environment anyway, so no \end is needed.

Stefan