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Behavioral investigation of the footings on geosynthetics-reinforced ferrochrome slag
Manal Alali1*
,
Bandita Paikaray2
,
Benu Gopal Mohapatra3
1Ph.D. Researcher, School of Civil Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
2Assistant Professor, School of Civil Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
3Professor, School of Civil Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
*Corresponding Author
30 December 2022. pp. 436-453
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Abstract

The rapid growth in all sectors puts great pressure on natural resources, making them vulnerable to depletion, not to mention the huge volume of waste, which is an inevitable result of this growth, especially industrial ones. These challenges drove researchers to seek sustainable alternatives with the least dependence on natural resources and invest in industrial wastes simultaneously. In the last decade, ferrochrome slag was able to draw the attention of researchers to use it in the construction sector, but it did not have an opportunity to prove its worth as a foundation material despite its outstanding physical and mechanical properties. In the current research, and after verifying the environmental acceptance of ferrochrome slag through the leaching test to determine the toxicity of waste seeping into the ground, an experimental investigation was carried out through a series of laboratory model footing tests using a bed of ferrochrome slag with a medium relative density of 65%, the bearing capacity of each square and rectangular foundation that laying on the slag bed was evaluated in unreinforced and reinforced conditions with two different types of geosynthetic materials, geogrid and geotextile (non-woven), the variable parameters included the type of footing, the sort of reinforcement and the number of reinforcement layers. The findings showed a good response to the inclusion of the geosynthetic layers, adding a layer of geogrid, two and three layers increased the bearing capacity of square footing by 7%, 32%, and 52%, respectively. The bearing capacity ratio (BCR) with adding three layers of geotextile for rectangular footing (1.95) was found to be better than that of square footing (1.64), however, for three layers of the geogrid, the BCR value of square footing (1.52) was slightly more than that of rectangular footing (1.48). The environmental acceptance and the good response to the geosynthetics open up the chance for the ferrochrome slag to stand out as a sustainable alternative to granular footing materials, with geotextiles outperforming their geogrid counterparts in improving the bearing capacity of both types of foundations studied.

Keywords
ferrochrome slag
footings
leaching
industrial waste
geogrid
geotextile
bearing capacity
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  • Publisher :Sustainable Building Research Center (ERC) Innovative Durable Building and Infrastructure Research Center
  • Publisher(Ko) :건설구조물 내구성혁신 연구센터
  • Journal Title :International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development
  • Volume : 13
  • No :4
  • Pages :436-453
  • Received Date :2022. 09. 20
  • Accepted Date : 2022. 12. 13
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.22712/susb.20220032
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