Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Conical Shell Strip Footing Reinforced in Multi-Layered Soil

Shell Foundations are Considered as the Best Shallow Foundation to Transfer Heavy loads to Weaker Subgrade soil. Use of Shells in Foundation as Mainly in Roofs, Which Helps to Saving the Materials and Labour. In this Paper, Conical shell Strip Footing are used. Conical shell Strip Footing is Mainly used for Tower like Structures. The load Carrying Capacity of Conical shell strip Footings on Unreinforced and Reinforced Layered soil were Determined by Laboratory tests. Here a very thin layer of sand is Placed above clayey soil and placing reinforcement in different depth. The models of shell Footings were Constructed on the Basis of Suitable Testing tank. The model test Results were Verified using PLAXIS 3D. The load Carrying Capacity of Conical shell strip Footing with Reinforcement Showing Maximum Values as Compared with without Reinforcement. The results shows that load carrying capacity increases with Increase in Number of Reinforcement layers. So shell Strip Footing with Maximum Number of Reinforcement layers Shows lowest Settlement and high load Carrying Capacity.