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...

Footing foundations are sometimes built on sloping grounds of natural sand which is highly anisotropic. The anisotropic mechanical behaviour can significantly influence the bearing capacity a foundation and failure mechanism its supporting slope. Neglecting anisotropy may lead to overestimated under-design foundations. A numerical investigation response slope under strip footing presented, plac...

Two-dimensional model tests combined with PIV technology were conducted to study the failure behavior of strip footing on geosynthetic-reinforced granular soil foundations a mesoscale. The results showed that geosynthetic reinforcements improve bearing capacity foundations; however, effectiveness reinforcement was affected by position, length, and number geosynthetics. mesoscale factor affectin...