nowadays, soil reinforcement using polymer elements have been investigated by a number of researchers in order to increase the load capacity of soils. reinforcing soils using fibers is a method of soil improvement, which offers a homogenous mixture in combination with soils, regarding their tensile strength. this combination maintains pressure loading capacity and properties in mutual resistant...

in present research, 17 centrifuge tests have been conducted to study the effect of various parameters such as the number of piles, the distance between piles, gradation and thickness of the granular layer on the load-settlement behavior of a pile raft system. the results showed the importance of granular layer to reduce the settlement of non-connected pile raft system when the roles of piles a...

The purpose of this study is to propose a practical formula for estimating the maximum load bearing capacity partially concrete-filled steel tubes (PCFST) without using complicated numerical analysis and estimation procedures. This focused on four parameters (radius thickness ratio R, slenderness λ, axial force n, concrete filling Lc/L) used in determine horizontal buckling position PCFST with ...