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STUDY THE BEHAVIOUR OF EXPANSIVE SOIL USING FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS

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Last updated: 01 Feb 2025

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Civil engineering

Abstract

Expansive soil is considered one of the most important causes of the collapse of buildings and facilities. There are many factors affecting the stability of structures constructed on expansive soils. In this paper, the numerical analysis was carried out on the swelling soil obtained from Al- Azhar university branch, Sohage government in Upper Egypt. Also, a parametric study was carried out to study the effect of some parameters like: the type of replacement, the thickness of replacement, and the ground water rise. It was found that using a replacement layer of sand only gives lower bending moment and shear force values than using replacement layers consisting of sand and gravel. Also, the maximum bending moment and shear force decreased as the ratio D/B increased. Moreover, the effect of groundwater level disappeared when the ratio D/B was greater than 3.0. Finally, Using sand as a replacement layer under foundations constructed on expansive soil dissipated the effect of the change in groundwater level.

DOI

10.21608/auej.2025.318713.1711

Keywords

Expansive soils, Numerical analysis, Ground water level, Replacement Layers, Swelling pressure

Authors

First Name

Moamen

Last Name

Abd El Raouf

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Al- Azhar University, Qena, Egypt.

Email

moamenabdelmontaleb@azhar.edu.eg

City

cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-6794-5952

First Name

Khaled

Last Name

Bahloul

MiddleName

M. M.

Affiliation

Lecturer, Department of Construction Engineering, October High Institute of Engineering and Technology, Egypt

Email

khaled.ohi1086@must.edu.eg

City

cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-2905-5182

Volume

20

Article Issue

74

Related Issue

53014

Issue Date

2025-01-01

Receive Date

2024-09-05

Publish Date

2025-01-01

Page Start

143

Page End

154

Print ISSN

1687-8418

Online ISSN

3009-7622

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https://jaes.journals.ekb.eg/article_404803.html

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404,803

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Original Article

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706

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Publication Title

Journal of Al-Azhar University Engineering Sector

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https://jaes.journals.ekb.eg/

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STUDY THE BEHAVIOUR OF EXPANSIVE SOIL USING FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS

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01 Feb 2025