Experimental Study of Load Settlement Behavior on Silt Clay Loam (Soft Murum) with or without Geogrid

Soil is all naturally occurring relatively unconsolidated earth material, organic or inorganic in character that lies above the bed rock includes different materials like silts, clays, gravels etc. It is universally available material of various types with different physical, chemical and organic properties. Foundation is a part of structure which transmits load of super structure to the sub soil. Geotechnical engineers face various problems while designing the foundations on highly compressible clayey soil due to poor bearing capacity and excessive settlement. Thus bearing capacity is one of the important aspects of soil engineering. The bearing capacity of the soil put forth by scientists like Prandtl (1921) Terzaghi (1943), Meyerhoff (1963), Hansen (1970), Vesic (1973), etc. In the project the bearing capacity of silt clay loam can be studied under static load in metallic tank. The prototype structure of working foundation is prepared and tested under cyclic load of various vertical load and eccentricities of a size of square and circular footing. The effect on bearing capacity of soil due to inclusion of reinforcement into the soil at various positions is also to be analyzed.