Behavior of strip footing on geogrid-reinforced sand over a soft clay slope

Geotextiles and Geomembranes

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 50-60

  El Sawwaf, Mostafa A ^a  

^a Tanta University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Bearing capacity; Finite element analysis; Geogrid reinforcement; Reinforced sand slope; Soft clay; Strip footing

Indexed keywords

CLAY; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOIL LIQUEFACTION; STRAIN; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

GEOGRID-REINFORCED SAND; SLOPE CREST; SOFT CLAY; STRIP FOOTING;

SAND;

BEARING CAPACITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOOTING; NUMERICAL METHOD; PLANE STRAIN; SLOPE; SOFT CLAY; SOIL REINFORCEMENT;

COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOGRID; MODEL; SOIL REINFORCEMENT;

EID: 33846529986     PISSN: 02661144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geotexmem.2006.06.001     Document Type: Article

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