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Behavior Of Piled Raft Foundation In Partially Saturated Soils, Salman Alrubaye
Behavior Of Piled Raft Foundation In Partially Saturated Soils, Salman Alrubaye
Civil & Environmental Engineering Theses & Dissertations
Current foundation design practice considers conventional pile group foundation when simpler and rather economical raft foundations do not meet one of the design criteria. However, design requirements could be met by incorporating a reduced number of piles with the raft. Piled Raft foundation (PRF) is a composite foundation in which, the piles and the raft contribute to the total resistance of the foundation.
The objective of this dissertation is to study the behavior of PRF in fully and partially saturated soils. The primary purpose of this study is to develop models capable of estimating the resistance of different types of …