Bearing capacity of square footing on geogrid-reinforced loose sand to resist eccentric load

الملخص EN

This research presents and discusses the results of experimental investigation carried out on geogrids model to study the behavior of geogrid in the loose sandy soil.

The effect of location eccentricity, depth of first layer of reinforcement, vertical spacing, number and type of reinforcement layers has been investigated.

The results indicated that the percentage of bearing improvement a bout (22 %) at number of reinforced layers N = 1 and about (47.5 %) at number of reinforced layers N = 2 for different Eccentricity values when depth ratio and vertical spacing between layers are (0.5B and 0.75B) respectively.