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Geomechanics and Engineering
  Volume 5, Number 3, June 2013 , pages 187-194
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/gae.2013.5.3.187
 


A review on uplift response of symmetrical anchor plates embedded in reinforced sand
Hamed Niroumand and Khairul Anuar Kassim

 
Abstract
    The most soil anchor works have been concerned with the uplift problem on embedded in non-reinforced soils under pullout test. Symmetrical anchor plates are a foundation system that can be resisting tensile load with the support of around soil in which symmetrical anchor plate is embedded. Engineers and authors proved that the uplift response can be improved by grouping the symmetrical anchor plates, increasing the unit weight, embedment ratio and the size of symmetrical anchor plates. Innovation of geosynthetics in the field of geotechnical engineering as reinforcement materials found to be possible solution in symmetrical anchor plate responses. Unfortunately the importance of reinforcement in submergence has received very little attention by researchers. In this paper, provision of tensile reinforcement under embedded conditions has been studied through uplift experiments on symmetrical anchor plates by few researchers. From the test results it has been showed that the provision of geogrid reinforcement system enhances the uplift response substantially under uplift test although other results are such as increase the ultimate uplift response of symmetrical anchor plate embedded using geosynthetic and Grid Fixed Reinforced (GFR) and symmetrical anchor plate improvement is very dependent on geosynthetic layer length and increases significantly until the amount of beyond that further increase in the layer length does not show a significant contribution in the anchor response.
 
Key Words
    uplift response; symmetrical anchor plates; geosynthetic; geogrid; reinforced sand
 
Address
Hamed Niroumand, Khairul Anuar Kassim: Department of geotechnical Engineering, Faculty of civil engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
 

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