Utilization of Sustainable Material to Improve the Geotechnical Properties of Silty Clay – Experimental and Numerical Study

Bahloul, Khaled

doi:10.21608/erjeng.2022.167621.1107

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“…The ultimate bearing capacities of reinforced soils were higher than that of unreinforced soil by 45.82% for the reinforcement layer embedded at a depth equal to u/B=0.5 and 37.48% for the reinforcement layer embedded at a depth equal to u/B =1, respectively. The values were agreeable with the literature [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]15,16]. The bearing capacity escalation and settlement declination are due to the soil compression above the reinforcement.…”

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“…They also illustrated that the effectiveness of reinforcement extends up to a 1.4-time width for square foundations on geogrid reinforced sand. Bahloul [7] utilised the jute cloth as a geotextile for studying the geotechnical properties of silty clay. It was observed that there was a 33% and 29% increase in the angle of shear and cohesion, respectively.…”

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Effect of reinforcement on load-carrying capacity of shallow foundation resting on silty clay

Monika,

Devi

2024

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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In this paper, an experiment study investigated the effect of reinforced silty clay on the geotechnical behaviour of the small-scale square foundation models (15cm in length and 15cm in breadth with a thickness of 2.5 cm). A comparison of reinforced and unreinforced soil based on the bearing capacity of the soil and settlement was conducted. Moreover, the laboratory test also includes two cases for reinforced soil regarding the embedment depth of the reinforcement. In the first case, the reinforcement was embedded at a depth equal to u/B = 0.5; in the second case, the reinforcement was embedded at a depth equal to u/B = 1. The paper also presents the use of fibreglass mats as soil reinforcement. The foundation’s bearing capacity and settlement characteristics resting on reinforced soil were greater than those of the unreinforced soil, as observed from the results. It also found that the soil reinforced with a reinforcement layer at an embedment depth equal to u/B= 0.5 had better geotechnical behaviour in ultimate bearing capacity and settlement than the soil reinforced with a reinforcement layer at a depth equal to u/B=1 and unreinforced soil. The bearing capacity ratio (BCR) value is higher for reinforced soil at embedment depth equal to u/B=0.5 than that of embedment depth at u/B =1. The settlement reduction factor (SRF) factor is lesser for soil reinforced at a depth equal to u/B=0.5 than u/B=1. This proves that the influence of reinforcement decreases with depth.

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