Author : Vijaykumar

The experimental investigation is carried out for the performance of square footing in reinforced Flyash bed under repeated loading conditions. The investigation represents that the model square footing Embedded in reinforced and unreinforced Flyash bed using geogrid as a reinforcement to increase the bearing capacity of embedded footing. The study results shows that the performance of embedded footing is more influenced by the more layer of reinforcement. For the embedded footing the highest number of reinforcement layers is three. Also the tests were conducted with varying load pressure i.e. 250kPa and 350kPa and 450kPa. Footing shows a better performance at a magnitude of 250kPa compared to 350kPa and 450kPa loading and the footing gives better performance at a reinforcement spacing of 0.3B compared to 0.4B and 0.5B spacing.

Keywords: Fly ash, Footing, Reinforcement, Cyclic Load.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.9, No.6 (Nov/Dec 2019)