... that, reducing reinforcement spacing significantly increased the ultimate bearing capacity and reduced both settlement and facing deformation. The two geogrids with different grid configurations and rib arrangements exhibited different deformation responses under higher loading conditions. Furthermore...

... width and location could have on the load-bearing performance of MSE walls at a serviceability limit state. Results indicate that the bearing capacity of full-height panel walls are generally greater than that of comparable modular block facing alternatives, especially for shorter walls (H...

... thickness is identified, beyond which further increments fail to augment the slope's bearing capacity. A 20 mm geotextile thickness is found to yield maximum bearing capacity, with an optimal center-to-center distance to the diameter of stone columns (S/D) ratio of 2. The study also posits the feasibility...

... replacement ratio, on the load-bearing characteristics was examined. The findings indicate that the maximum bearing capacity of the composite foundation can be achieved when the encasement length of RCAEC is approximately six times the column diameter, the l/d is 6 ∼ 7, the stiffness...

.... The ultimate bearing capacity of the composite foundation formed by the E-GESC method was 6.6 times that of the SC and 3.8 times that of the GESC, demonstrating a significantly enhanced reinforcement effect. Geosynthetics Electroosmosis Pile–Soil Stress Ratio Combined Method Ground Improvement...

... having a range of widths, embedment depths, shapes, and loading inclinations. In tests where tilting was restricted, a clear bearing capacity was not observed for settlements up to 1.2B, where B is the footing width, but in tests where tilting was permitted bearing capacity was observed...

...B. Yaghoobi; H. Fathipour; M. Payan; R. Jamshidi Chenari In this study, the ultimate bearing capacity of shallow strip footings resting on a geosynthetic-reinforced soil mass subjected to inclined and eccentric combined loading is rigorously examined through the well-established method of lower...

...J. Derksen; M. Ziegler; R. Fuentes Small- and large-scale 1 g experiments were conducted to investigate the bearing capacity failure of geosynthetic-reinforced soil walls. The small-scale experiments (1/10) provided fundamental insights into the development of failure based on digital...

...P. Xu; G. Yang; K. Hatami; T. Li The paper presents an upper-bound solution for the bearing capacity based on the assumption of a general two-part-wedge (TPW) slip plane in MSE walls subjected to strip footing load. The proposed method is validated against the results from different analytical...

...S. H. Liu; B. X. Fang; Y. Lu; S. Chen Soilbags have been successfully used in the reinforcement of building foundations that can function as the base isolation. A series of unconfined compression tests under monotonic and cyclic loading were conducted to investigate the static bearing capacity...

...P. Xu; K. Hatami; G. Yang; T. Li; X. Liang The paper presents a numerical modeling study on the bearing capacity of full-height panel, Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) walls under strip footing using a validated finite element method that is based on upper-bound limit analysis (FE-UBLA...

..., the performance of the footing continued to decrease with greater vertical distance between the top and lower geocell layers. Only a marginal improvement in the behavior of the tested models was observed for a range of widths of the geocell. Geocell layers inclusions can improve the bearing capacity and decline...

... of placement, width and height of the soil-filled, bottle-reinforced mattress are studied under static plate load testing. Test results revealed that the bottle-reinforced bed is highly rigid, delivering very high bearing capacities at small soil displacements. Optimum depth of placement, width and height...

...L. Wang; S. Liu; J. Liao; K. Fan A study was performed to investigate the bearing capacity of foundations reinforced by soilbags filled with excavated soft soils by conducting field load tests and numerical analysis. The effect of the number of reinforcement layers on the bearing capacity...

...K. Halder; D. Chakraborty The study estimates the lower bound values of the seismic bearing capacity of a strip footing placed on a reinforced cohesionless soil slope. The influence of slope angle, soil friction angle, horizontal seismic acceleration coefficient, depth of first reinforcement layer...

... conditions on embedded and non-embedded square footings in unreinforced and reinforced soils were investigated with laboratory model tests given in the first part of the study. Variations in the bearing capacity were determined through vertical load versus settlement curves drawn after each test...

...P. Fazeli Dehkordi; M. Ghazavi; N Ganjian; U. F. A. Karim The presence of a rigid layer underlying a soil bed layer supporting twin footings affects the footing bearing capacity and settlement. In this study, the bearing capacity and settlement of twin large-scale circular footings on unreinforced...

... was due to the near-simultaneous rupture of the reinforcement layers. It was also found that longer reinforcement does not always provide greater bearing capacity at certain reinforcement spacings. Figure 3. Sample of transparent soil To study the failure mechanism of foundations on soils...

...N. Biswas; P. Ghosh This paper explores the ultimate bearing capacity of two closely spaced interfering strip footings resting on a reinforced cohesionless soil bed using upper-bound limit analysis. The soil is assumed to follow the Mohr-Coulomb failure criteria along with the associated flow rule...

... showed good agreement with the measured bearing capacity of the footing in each full-scale test. However, the assumption of vertically anisotropic spatial variability in soil strength was shown to achieve a better match with the observed failure mechanism in each of the embankments. Figure 1 shows...