Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
Curtin University
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Engineering
RAS ID
13235
Abstract
In several parts of the world, disposal of waste materials such as fly ash is a great problem. Application of waste materials as structural fills in foundations is one of the best solutions to disposal problems, because wastes can be used in large volumes in such applications. There may be difficulty due to poor load-bearing capacity of fly ash, especially when footing rests on the top of the fly ash fill slope. Inclusion of polymeric reinforcements as horizontal sheets within the fill may be one of the most viable solutions to improving the load-bearing capacity of reinforced fly ash slope, and it is particularly important for the situations where foundations need to be located either on the top of a slope or on slope itself. The present work is aimed at investigating the efficacy of a single layer of reinforcement in improving the loadbearing capacity when it gets incorporated within the body of a model fly ash embankment slope. An increase in load bearing capacity due to the incorporation of reinforcement in the model slope was found by conducting laboratory tests. Experimental results were compared by numerical values obtained using software GEO5 and PLAXIS.
Access Rights
free_to_read
Comments
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of: Gill, K., Choudhary, A., Jha, J., & Shukla, S. K. (2011). Load-bearing capacity of the footing resting on a reinforced fly ash slope. Paper presented at the International Conference on Advances in Geotechnical Engineering. Perth. Available here