Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
American Society of Civil Engineers
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Engineering
RAS ID
14945
Abstract
In several parts of the world, the disposal of waste materials like fly ash is a challenging task. The applications of fly ash as structural fills in foundations is one of the best solutions to disposal problems, because they can be used in large volumes in such application. There may be difficulty due to poor load-bearing capacity of fly ash, especially when footings rest on the top of the fly ash fill slope; but inclusion of polymeric reinforcements as horizontal sheets within the fill may be advantageous in improving the load-bearing capacity of reinforced fly ash slope. The aim of present investigation is to find out the efficacy of multi layer reinforcements in improving the load-bearing capacity when incorporated within the body of fly ash embankment. An increase in load bearing capacity due to the incorporation of reinforcement layers in the model slope was observed in the laboratory tests. The experimental results were compared with the numerical findings obtained from the finite element analysis using commercial software PLAXIS 2D version 9.0.
DOI
10.1061/9780784412121.438
Access Rights
free_to_read
Comments
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of: Gill, K., Choudhary, A., Jha, J., & Shukla, S. K. (2012). Load-bearing capacity of a footing resting on the fly ash slope with multi-layer reinforcements. Proceedings of Geo congress of the Geo-Institute of ASCE. (pp. 4262-4271). Oakland, California. American Society of Civil Engineers. Available here