Bearing Capacity of Partially Skirted Footings on Sand
Daftar Isi:
- Abstract Soil bearing capacity has the most important role to determine the type of foundation. It is important to find an effort of improvement in both sectors of fundamental area either it is on foundation or in soil itself. By adding the partially skirt (partially vertical plate) surroundings under the footings surface can be used as an alternative of improvement the bearing capacity of foundation. This research is performing twelve laboratory models of partially skirted footings with different diameter and partially skrit length, on the sand soil as a media with same compaction method. From the laboratory test which has been done, it was found that the partially skirts improve the bearing capacity of foundation up to 2.97 times than the unskirted foundation. The partially skirt also reduce the settlement up to 82 % in average in the same value of 2 kN load. The partially skirt with the longest skirt has the best result in reducing the settlement.