Modeling of the cyclic behavior of shallow foundations resting on geomesh and grid-anchor reinforced sand

Geotextiles and Geomembranes

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 242-248

  Boushehrian, A H ^a   Hataf, N ^a   Ghahramani A , ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cyclic loading; Field study; Reinforced sand; Shallow foundations

Indexed keywords

ALLOWABLE BEARING CAPACITY; COMPUTER CODES; CYCLIC BEHAVIOR; CYCLIC LOADINGS; DEFORMATION ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING PROPERTIES; FIELD STUDY; FIELD TEST; FOOTING SIZE; GEOSYNTHETICS; LARGE SCALE TESTS; LOAD CYCLE; LOADING CYCLES; NONUNIFORM; REINFORCED SAND; REINFORCED SOIL; ROAD EMBANKMENTS; SHALLOW FOUNDATIONS; SQUARE FOOTINGS; STORAGE TANK; TRAFFIC LOADS; ULTIMATE LOADS;

CYCLIC LOADS; LOADING; REINFORCEMENT; SAND; SOIL TESTING; UNLOADING;

FOUNDATIONS;

AMPLITUDE; BEARING CAPACITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLIC LOADING; FOUNDATION; GEOSYNTHETICS; GROUND SETTLEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; REINFORCED EARTH; SOIL REINFORCEMENT; SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; STORAGE TANK;

EID: 79954807090     PISSN: 02661144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geotexmem.2010.11.008     Document Type: Article

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