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Response of square anchor plates embedded in reinforced soft clay subjected to cyclic loading

  • Biradar, Jagdish (Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras) ;
  • Banerjee, Subhadeep (Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras) ;
  • Shankar, Ravi (Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras) ;
  • Ghosh, Poulami (Department of Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University) ;
  • Mukherjee, Sibapriya (Department of Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University) ;
  • Fatahi, Behzad (School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney (UTS))
  • Received : 2018.07.18
  • Accepted : 2019.01.10
  • Published : 2019.02.10
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Abstract

Plate anchors are generally used for structures like transmission towers, mooring systems etc. where the uplift and lateral forces are expected to be predominant. The capacity of anchor plate can be increased by the use of geosynthetics without altering the size of plates. Numerical simulations have been carried out on three different sizes of square anchor plates. A single layer geosynthetic has been used as reinforcement in the analysis and placed at three different positions from the plate. The effects of various parameters like embedment ratio, position of reinforcement, width of reinforcement, frequency and loading amplitude on the pull out capacity have been presented in this study. The load-displacement behaviour of anchors for various embedment ratios with and without reinforcement has been also observed. The pull out load, corresponding to a displacement equal to each of the considered maximum amplitudes of a given frequency, has been expressed in terms of a dimensionless breakout factor. The pull out load for all anchors has been found to increase by more than 100% with embedment ratio varying from 1 to 6. Finally a semi empirical formulation for breakout factor for square anchors in reinforced soil has also been proposed by carrying out regression analysis on the data obtained from numerical simulations.

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