Bearing Capacity of Reinforced Pond Ash | |
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( Volume 2 Issue 12 ,December 2016 ) OPEN ACCESS | |
Author(s): | |
Joyanta Maity, Bikash Chandra Chattopadhyay | |
Abstract: | |
An experimental study of the bearing capacity of a square footing resting on reinforced Pond Ash was conducted in this investigation. In India, the problem of ash disposal is expected to become severe due to the limited space available for ash disposal near most of the power plants. This calls for strategies to encourage and establish technological concepts for bulk utilization of Pond Ash, which should not only be cost- effective but also environmentally safe. In this present investigation, a series of bearing capacity model test were carried out on square footing of size 10cm x 10cm resting on the reinforced Pond Ash bed which was prepared at OMC with required density. The tests were conducted without and with different no of geojute layers. The experiments were also be carried out with different densities of foundation medium, different u/B ratio, and with different size of reinforcing material sheet. From the test result it is observed that the ultimate bearing capacity of square footing on reinforced and unreinforced Pond ash bed is increases with the increase of the density of foundation bed, . Also, the bearing capacity of reinforced Pond ash bed increases with the increase of number of reinforcing layer and length of the reinforcing material sheet up to a certain limit, after that there is no improvement. Maximum improvement in ultimate beanng capacity of reinforced Pond ash bed can be achieved at u/B ratio of 0.25, with length of geojute sheet of 6B and with four number of geojute layers. |
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