Response of Circular Footing on New Key Engineering Material - Granulated Blast Furnace Slag as Structural Fill

Abstract:

Granulated Blast furnace Slag (GBS) has good potential to be use as granular material in place of conventional granular materials i.e. sand and aggregate. It can be use as structural fill in low laying areas. In such cases, it is required to evaluate the bearing capacity of the fill and reinforced it with some suitable reinforcing materials to enhance the bearing capacity. In this study, Response of circular footing was studied by using GBS as fill material and geogrid as reinforcing material. Only one geometric parameter i.e. number of geogrid layers was considered to get the response of circular footing. Two numbers of geogrid layers were obtained as optimum parameters and it increases the ultimate bearing capacity 94% and decreases the settlement by 45% as compared to unreinforced GBS bed.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1119)
• Pages: 726-730
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1119.726
• Online since: July 2015
• Authors: Laxmikant Yadu*, R.K. Tripathi
• Keywords: Bearing Capacity, Circular Footing, Granulated Blast Furnace Slag, Settlement Reduction Factor

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