Abstract
In this paper, unreinforced and cellular reinforced fly ash slopes were analyzed using numerical modelling to simulate the laboratory model studies by applying similar geometry and reinforcement parameters to understand its deformation behavior on rigid foundation. Small scale laboratory experimental models were performed on fly ash slopes by applying strip loading at a 60° inclination. In the current study an approach was made to use cellular reinforcement (CR) material which is made up of from post-consumer waste plastic water bottles along with steel grid-jute geotextile composite reinforcement at slope facia. A numerical analyses using finite-element analysis (FEA) PLAXIS 3D was conducted to validate the experimental laboratory model test results. In FEA, fly ash as backfill material and reinforcing materials like steel grid-jute geotextile and cellular/geocell reinforcement were modeled systematically. Here, fly ash modeled with Mohr–Coulomb failure criteria as linear elastic plastic material and, for cellular/geocell reinforcement it was modeled as elastoplastic material. The numerical model analyses were consistently substantiated with experimental results. Parametric analysis were conducted by using validated numerical model to evaluate the influence of various cellular properties along with steel grid-jute geotextile composite reinforcement on the performance of reinforced fly ash slopes. The numerical finite element simulation (FES) results are in good agreement with the model test results.
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