2019 Volume 10 Issue 2 Special Issue
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Numerical Analysis of Truss Foundation Settlement under Various Loadings‎ ‎


Mojtaba Bagheri Akhijahani*, Ebadollah Ghanbari
Abstract

The truss foundation settlement, due to the light weight of these structures and their ‎strip construction with some problems like a non-uniform settlement or the assessment ‎of these foundations loading against conventional loading, is among the important ‎problems that are considered in the behavior type and the interaction of the foundation ‎with soil. This research studies the non-uniform soil beds, non-uniform settlement in ‎foundations and its effect on the structure and numerical analysis and modeling in the ‎ABAQUS software. In the following, the conventional loading including snow and ‎wind loadings will be studied for some conditions of these structures with their ‎foundations. In the present research, model behavior of truss sub-structure foundation ‎is studied in three different loadings, three different widths, and three different depths ‎and the following results are obtained. The effect of centrifugal forces (like wind) is ‎almost ineffective for foundations. It seems that deepening the foundation is the best ‎way for settlement decrease in normal settlement reduction. By increasing the ‎foundation depth for about 25 cm, the normal settlement has decreased by about four ‎times in the modeled samples. The effect of soil type on the settlement of software ‎models was impressive and by decreasing the elastic modulus of soil, the foundation ‎settlement will increase by about 25 percent‎‎‎‎.


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