... footings on a thin soil layer overlying a rigid base has not been studied. The main aim of this study is to evaluate the performance of three confinement types due to the presence of the rigid base, geocell reinforcement, and footing interference effects separately or simultaneously on the bearing capacity...

.... A kinematically admissible multi-block failure mechanism is adopted in the analysis. The effect of interaction is studied with respect to angle of internal friction of soil (ϕ), clear spacing between the footings (s) and the number of reinforcement layers (p). The interference effect...