Enhancing the bearing capacity of rigid footing using limited life kenaf geotextile reinforcement

Shirazi, Mohammad Gharehzadeh and A Rashid, Ahmad Safuan and Nazir, Ramli and Abdul Rashid, Azrin Hani and Horpibulsuk, Suksun (2020) Enhancing the bearing capacity of rigid footing using limited life kenaf geotextile reinforcement. Journal of Natural Fibers, 1 (NIL). pp. 1-16. ISSN 1544-046X

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Abstract

This research focuses on soft clay improvement by using Kenaf textile as a natural geotextile reinforcement. A series of small-scale laboratory tests were conducted to study the impact of the geotextile reinforcement depth, d, the vertical spacing between reinforcement, S and the number of reinfor- cement layers, N on the bearing capacity of the soil model. The test results were verified using the numerical simulation by PLAXIS 2D. In this study, the influence factors included four different d/B ratios of 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and 1.0; three different S/B ratios of 0.25, 0.5 and 0.75, and a different number of reinforcement layers, N from 1 to 4 were investigated where B is the footing width. The results clearly showed that the bearing capacity of rigid footings was significantly improved with the Kenaf geotextile layers in the kaolin. The measured and predicted bearing capacity results were in good agreement. The optimum d/B ratio and S/B ratio, which resulted in the maximum ultimate bearing capacity of the Kenaf-reinforced model ground were about 0.25 and 0.25, respectively. The optimum N was 3, i.e., the bearing capacity insignificantly improved even with N > 3.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Ground improvement; Bearing capacity; Kenaf geotextile; numerical analysis; Rigid footing; limited life
Subjects:	T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering Technology > Department of Mechnical Engineering Technology
Depositing User:	Miss Nur Rasyidah Rosli
Date Deposited:	30 Jan 2022 08:09
Last Modified:	30 Jan 2022 08:09
URI:	http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/id/eprint/6378

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