The soil-foundation interaction is one of the most important issues in geotechnical engineering that deals with studying the soil behavior subjected to the side loading. Winkler’s model is the first and simplest method for consideration of the soil-foundation interaction. It is vitally important to determine the coefficient of subgrade reaction of the soil. Since several methods have been prov...

This paper investigates response of triangular shell strip footings situated on the sandy slope. A series of reduced-scale plate load tests were conducted to cover different parameters including three shell footing types with different apex angles in addition to a flat footing, four different distances for strip footings from the crest of the slope namely “edge distance” and reinforcement statu...

This study intends to examine the behavior of a GRS wall with static footing loading above it, while varying positions footing. For such complex structure, finite element modeling is handy and enables look into various stress/strain developed in numerical model. In view above, series (FEM) simulations using software (Optum G2) performed for analysis wall. The governing parameters, as width (B),...

The change in project cost, or cost growth, occurs from many factors, some of which are related to soil problem conditions that may during construction and/or site investigation period. This paper described a new improvement method with minimum solution by using polymer fiber materials having length (3 cm) both directions and (2.5 mm) thickness, distributed uniform medium dense .sandy at differ...

Various methods can be applied to improve soil behavior in order increase the bearing capacity or reduce settlement of footings. These categorized as stabilization improvement by use different geosynthetics; injection methods; grouting replacing weak with stronger materials. One most common and materials that used for improving soils, is placing a stone layer under footing. In this study, strip...