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From the laboratory experiments and 3D simulation of The numerical calculations were performed using
piled raft in Midas GTS NX, the reduction in settlements commercial software Midas GTS NX and concentrated on
with increase in diameter becomes insignificant after a some specific aspects of numerical modeling applied to
certain range of diameter. The variation of pile length deep foundations, especially the influence of the soil
shows more influence on the settlements than the constitutive model and the pile-soil interface elements on
variation of pile diameter. The use of piled raft as an overall settlements.
alternate for raft foundation results in around 30%
decrease in raft thickness, along with 20% decrease in the Midas GTS NX is a FEM based modeling software. It
settlements when the raft thickness was reduced to 50cm includes CAD based 2D and 3D commands for modeling.
from 70cm.In order to bring down the settlement of GTS NX analyses foundation stability subjected to lateral
78.7mm in 70cm raft foundation, the first alternative of pressure and differential settlements.
using a piled raft of 50cm thickness resulted in the
decrease of settlement by about 20%. The introduction of 2. OBJECTIVES:-
piles irrespective of the raft thickness results in
considerable decrease in the foundation settlements. Use 1. To evaluate the engineering properties of soil.
of piled raft can be used to reduce the settlements of the 2. To study the effect on displacements of raft with the
raft as well as the material resources by reduction in the introduction of piles.
raft thickness. Midas GTS NX proves to be efficient 3. To study the piled raft interactions with variations in
software in the analysis of piled raft foundation with a user thickness of raft.
friendly interface and can aid in the analysis of complex 4. To study the piled raft interactions with variation in
problems. length and diameter of piles.
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conducted to determine some pre-requisite properties of engineering properties of cohesion less soil depends
soil. on relative density. It gives a better idea of denseness
of soil than the void ratio. Relative density of soil
Determination of In-situ density, moisture content and
indicates the expected behaviour of soil under loading.
dry density of various soil samples.
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Shear stress
Kg/cm2
applied at a shearing strain of 1.25mm/min. Readings
are taken when the soil specimen fails. Shear strength 1
of soil is expressed as:
s = c + σ tan ϕ
y = 0.748x + 0.278
0 R² = 1
0 0.5 1 1.5 2
Normal stress Kg/cm2
Figure 5:- Failure envelope of soil 2
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c) Displacements of 70cm piled-raft with piles of Displacements of 50cm thickness raft with piles
length 9m of 6.2m length
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2. Use of piled raft can be used to reduce the settlements of 11. Nguyen Chung Dinh Dang, Jo Seong-Bae, Kim Dong-Soo
the raft as well as the material resources by reduction in “Design method of piled-raft foundations under vertical
the raft thickness. load considering interaction effects” Computers and
3. Midas GTS NX proves to be efficient software in the Geotechnics Volume 47, January 2013, Pages 16–27
analysis of piled raft foundation with auser friendly (2013)
interface and can aid in the analysis of complex problems. 12. Radhika. R, .Jeyapriya S.P, Soundrapandiyan P
“Parametric Study and Numerical Analysis of Piled Raft
8. FUTURE SCOPE OF WORK Foundation on Soft Clay” International journal for
research in emerging science and technology, volume-2,
1. The behaviour of the piled raft foundation can be issue-4, April-2015 (2015)
analysed for the increments in the pressure load 13. Batali Loretta “Numerical modelling of piled raft
on the raft. foundations. Modelling particularities and comparison
2. The foundation system can be analysed with a with field measurements” International Conference on
change in the number of piles and their different Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Seoul
arrangements. 2017(2017)
3. In the present study the settlements
corresponding to a uniformly distributed pressure
load were studied. The analysis can also be
performed for the case where the load is acting at
the location of structural columns.
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