An Experimental Investigation on Design Parameters of Geocell Reinforced Sand

Geocell reinforced soil is a cellular mattress with an almost honeycombed configuration, which not onlyincrease the soil bearing capacity but also reduce its settlement. There is little information on interactioneffects of its design parameters. This paper discusses the trends of footing behavior in terms of BearingCapicity Ratio (BCR) variation which estimated by using Design Of Experiments (DOE) method. Severaldifferent configurations of geocell were examined. The obtained results show a slight interaction betweenthe length of the Geocell layer and the required cover layer thickness. The most significant parameter isfind to be the Geocell height. Although the optimum dimension for the height, length and aperture size ofthe cells is obtained

Keywords:

Geocell , Soil Reinforcement , DOE , Bearing Capacity