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ABSTRACT
The present investigation was undertaken to study the behavior of reinforced sand in improving the bearing capacity and settlement resistance under square footing. Locally available river sand was used along with geogrid as a reinforcing material. The tests were conducted at a density of 18kN/m3. The parameters selected were depth of the top layer of reinforcement below the footing and D/B ratio of the reinforcement. Relationships between intensity of loading and settlement have been presented to determine the influence of the above parameters on the bearing capacity and settlement. It can be concluded that by a suitable arrangement of the reinforcing geogrid, the bearing capacity and settlement resistance of sand is improved as compared to the unreinforced sand. The estimation of load carrying capacity of footing is the most important step in the design of foundation. The number of theoretical approaches, in-situ tests and laboratory model tests are available to find out the bearing capacity of footing. The reliability of any theory can be demonstrated by comparing them with the experimental results. The results from laboratory model tests on square footings resting on sand with and without reinforcement are presented. The effect of bearing capacity of sand below the footing for square plate with variation in size, depth to width ratio and the effect of permissible settlement is evaluated. A steel tank of size 900mm1200mm1000mm is used for conducting model tests.
KEYWORDS: Square footing, model test, sand reinforcement, geogrid, ultimate bearing capacity, settlement.
INTRODUCTION
The practice of building houses and roads on fiber reinforced earth with different types of reinforcing intrusions is an older concept. Rope fibers and bamboo were used to strengthen rural road bases and the soil low-cost low-rise buildings, although such practices were in existence, the reinforced earth concept was not studied or explained until the work of Henri Vidal (1967) of France who demonstrated its wide application and developed rational design procedures. The concept of reinforcing the earth was mainly pertaining to the metal reinforcement in early days. In recent times, this concept has been extended to the other materials, like fabrics, geotextile, geogrid, geocell, geomembranes, often termed as Geosynthetic. (Narain and Ratnam , 1985; Datye and Nagaraju , 1985). There are various techniques of ground improvement depending on the type of soil, nature of improvement desired, time involved in the treatment, availability of materials and economic viability (Sreekantiah, 1987 ). The main purpose of ground improvement techniques are to reduce - 1033 -
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the settlement and to increase the bearing capacity. The present investigation deals with the behavior of reinforced earth in improving the bearing capacity and also settlement resistance under square footing. The bearing capacity of foundation is an important factor for designing the type of foundation and depth of foundation. Bearing capacity problems are focusing attention of the researchers for improvement of soil by using new material into the soil in various forms. One of the recent inclusions in bearing capacity problem is that of reinforcement. The bearing capacity of reinforced soil depends on various factors like length of reinforcement, number of reinforcement layers, placement of layers, angle of internal friction of soil and interface friction between soil and reinforcement. In the developing countries there is a growing need for research to be undertaken aimed at channelising local technology to the design and construction of low cost housing projects. It is expected that the locally available metal strips may provide a good reinforcement to the foundation soil in particular to long-term construction involving heavy loads over inferior foundation soil condition. Use of geosynthetics for improving the performance of shallow foundations has been studied by engineers over the past two decades. In the cases of poor marginal ground conditions, geosynthetics reinforcement is proved to be cost-effective solution. Among the range of geosynthetics available in the market, geogrids are the most preferred type of geosynthetic material for reinforcing the foundation beds. The beneficial effect of a geosynthetic inclusion is largely depends on the form in which it is used as reinforcement. For example, the same geosynthetic material, when used in planar layers or geocells or discreet fibers comprising exactly the same quantity of materials, will give different strength improvements in different forms. This difference in strengths achieved is mainly due to the different mechanism of failure in soil reinforced with geosynthetics in different forms.
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systematic series of triaxial compression tests on sand reinforced with geosynthetic in freeform (planar, discrete fiber and cellular) using the same quantity of reinforcement
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY
Materials used for the testing: sand
The test sand used in this study was dry sand collected from Godavari river near Paithan about 50 km from Aurangabad in Maharashtra State of India. The aim of this work is to study the effect of variation in size, depth of sand cushion below the footing (Dsc) and permissible settlement of footing on bearing capacity of sand for square footing. The specific gravity of sand is found to be 2.65, coefficient of uniformity (Cu) 3.20, coefficient of curvature (CC) 0.96 and effective particle size (D10) 0.42mm. Grain size distribution curve is shown in figure 1. The maximum and minimum dry unit weights of the sand were determined according to IS: 2720(1983), (part 14). The maximum dry unit weight of sand obtained is 18kN/m and the minimum dry weight obtained by pouring into the loosest state is 15.3kN/m. The friction angle of the sand at 82.90% relative density (Dr), as determined from direct shear test on dry sand sample, is found to be 40 .
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Testing procedure
Initially the sand bed of 900mm depth was prepared in the steel test tank using the sand raining technique. After preparing the bed, the surface was levelled, and the footing was placed exactly at the centre of the loading jack to avoid eccentric loading. The footing was loaded by a hand operated hydraulic jack supported against a reaction frame. A pre-calibrated proving ring was used to measure the load transferred to the footing. The load was applied in small increments. Each load increment was maintained constant until the footing settlement was stabilized. The footing settlements were measured through the dial gauges whose locations are as shown in the figure 3 . Table 2 shows the effect of intensity of loading and D/B ratio on settlement at depth of
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sand cushion below the footing (Dsc = 900mm), with and without reinforcement, for 100mm square plate. The effect of reinforcement on the bearing capacity is quantified in terms of Bearing Capacity Ratio (BCR).
BCR =
= qur / qu
Testing program
Model test is conducted on square footing resting on unreinforced sand. After that model tests were carried out on footings resting on geogrid reinforced sand by variation in D/B ratio as 0.3, 0.4 and 0.5. The objective of the test is to compare the performance improvement due to reinforcement for D/B ratio.
Table 2: Effect of q and D/B ratio on settlement in mm at Dsc = 900 mm with and without Geogrid for 100mm square plate
Depth of sand cushion below the footing (Dsc = 900mm) Intensity of With With With loading (q) Without Reinforcement Reinforcement Reinforcement (kN/m) Reinforcement (D/B = 0.3) (D/B = 0.4) (D/B = 0.5) 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 0 0.8 2.39 4.78 7.94 9.54 11.48 13.48 15.13 0 0.6 2.46 4.23 7.16 8.38 9.24 10.98 11.2 0 0.58 2.3 4.02 6.92 7.9 8.84 9.6 10.5 0 0.54 2.02 3.78 6.43 7.79 8.62 9.78 10.2
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0 0 2 Settlement in mm 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
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Intensity of loading kN/m2 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 Without Reinforcement With Reinforcement ( D/B = 0.3) With Reinforcement ( D/B = 0.4) With Reinforcement ( D/B = 0.5)
Figure 5: Effect of q and D/B ratio on settlement in mm at Dsc = 900 mm with and without Geogrid for 100mm square plate
Figure 5 shows effect of intensity of loading and D/B ratio on settlement for depth of sand cushion below the footing (Dsc). It is seen from the figure 5 that settlement decrease with introduction of sand reinforcement and the reduction in settlement is appreciable for the intensity of loading of 65 kN/m2 onwards.
Log Load
2 1.9 1.8 1.7 1.6 1.5 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1 1.1 1.2 1.3
Log Settlement
Figure 6: Log Load V/s Log Settlement for 100 mm square plate at 900mm depth without reinforcement
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Figure 7: Log Load vs Log Settlement for 100 mm Square Plate at 900mm depth with reinforcement (D/B = 0.3)
As shown in figure 6 and figure 7 log load vs log settlement curve is plotted, from the curve point of intersection will give the ultimate load and it is seen from the graphs that ultimate load increases with addition of geogrid.
80.6
100 (1.24)
97.72 (1.21)
Table 3 shows the ultimate bearing capacity of unreinforced sand and reinforced sand and it is seen that with the addition of reinforcement there is increase in the ultimate bearing capacity and the values in the parenthesis indicate the values of bearing capacity ratio (BCR). Table 4: Effect of q and D/B ratio on settlement in mm at Dsc = 900 mm with and without Geogrid for 120mm square plate
Depth of sand cushion below the footing (Dsc = 900mm) Intensity of With With With loading (q) Without Reinforcement Reinforcement Reinforcement (kN/m) Reinforcement (D/B = 0.3) (D/B = 0.4) (D/B = 0.5) 0 13.88 27.77 0 1.03 3.24 0 0.8 1.98 0 0.74 1.86 0 0.68 1.9
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0 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22
Intensity of Loading kN/m2 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 Without reinforcement With Renforcement (D/B = 0.3) With Renforcement (D/B = 0.4) With Renforcement (D/B = 0.5)
Figure 8: Effect of q and D/B ratio on settlement in mm at Dsc = 900 mm with and without Geogrid for 120mm square plate
Figure 8 shows effect of intensity of loading and D/B ratio on settlement for depth of sand cushion below the footing (Dsc). It is seen from the figure 8 that settlement decrease with introduction of soil reinforcement and the reduction in settlement is appreciable for the intensity of loading of 65 kN/m2 onwards .
Settlement in mm
Ultimate Load kN/m2 with reinforcement at Dsc = 900mm D/B = 0.3 97.74 (1.07) D/B = 0.4 D/B = 0.5
91.20
95.49 (1.04)
93.32 (1.02)
Table 5 shows the ultimate bearing capacity of unreinforced sand and reinforced sand. The values in the parenthesis indicate the values of BCR. The values of BCR falls in the range of 1.02 to 1.07.
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Table 6: Effect of q and D/B ratio on settlement in mm at Dsc = 900 mm with and without Geogrid for 150mm square plate
Depth of sand cushion below the footing (Dsc = 900mm) Intensity of With With With loading (q) Without (kN/m) Reinforcement Reinforcement Reinforcement Reinforcement (D/B = 0.3) (D/B = 0.4) (D/B = 0.5) 0 8.88 17.77 26.66 35.55 44.44 53.33 62.22 71.11 80 88.88 97.77 106.66 115.55 125 132.32 142.2 151.08 159.96 0 0.98 1.4 3.12 4.58 6.16 7.62 9.59 11.25 12.95 13.78 16.65 18.25 20.47 21.84 23.00 23.52 24.00 24.5 0 0.9 1.18 2.1 4.18 6.1 7.28 8.4 9.98 11.02 11.96 12.42 13.1 13.55 15.02 16.42 16.7 17.04 17.9 0 0.82 1.9 2.92 4.02 5.9 7.04 8.14 9.8 10.92 11.78 12.08 12.98 13.42 14.98 15.7 16.3 16.8 17.18 0 0.78 1.76 2.82 3.88 5.72 6.88 7.96 9.7 10.68 11.54 11.98 12.68 13.14 14.6 15.88 16.04 16.48 16.9
0 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26
Intensity of Loading kN/m2 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 Without Reinforcement With Reinforcement (D/B = 0.3) With Reinforcement (D/B = 0.4) With Reinforcement (D/B = 0.5)
Figure 9: Effect of q and D/B ratio on settlement in mm at Dsc = 900 mm with and without Geogrid for 150mm square plate
Settlement in mm
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It is seen from the figure 9 that settlement decreases for reinforced sand in comparision with unreinforced sand. The reduction in the settlement is appreciable for the intensity of loading of 65 kN/m2 onwards .
Ultimate Load kN/m2 with reinforcement at Dsc = 900mm D/B = 0.3 123.02 D/B = 0.4 120.22 (1.03) D/B = 0.5 117.49 (1.01)
115.95
(1.06)
CONCLUSIONS
Based on the studies carried out the different conclusions drawn are as given below. 1. For square plates of size 100mm, 120mm and 150mm with depth of sand cushion of 900mm, ultimate bearing capacity values for unreinforced sand are found to be 80.6 kN/m, 91.20 kN/m and 115.95 kN/m respectively. Thus, it indicates that as plate size increases, ultimate bearing capacity also increasing.
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For square plates of size 100mm, 120mm and 150mm with depth of sand cushion of 900mm and D/B ratio of 0.3 ultimate bearing capacity values for reinforced sand are found to be maximum. For square plates of size 100mm, 120mm and 150mm with depth of sand cushion of 900mm and D/B ratio of 0.3 settlement values are reduced by 35%. There is a considerable reduction in the settlement for reinforced sand in comparison with unreinforced sand for the intensity of loading 65 kN/m2 onwards. A proper placement of geogrid reinforcement is required to obtain significant load settlement and bearing capacity improvement. Apart from the tensile strength of reinforcement, its layout and configuration plays a vital role in increasing the bearing capacity.
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