Abstract
Soils and foundation of Bayon temple of Angkor Thom has been studied since 1994 by Japanese Government Team for Safeguarding Angkor (JSA). The main tower of Bayon of 32m in height from the base foundation mound consists of manmade fill of 14 m in thickness. The foundation was studied and found as a simple shallow direct foundation. This is just like a 10 story RC building standing upon thick manmade sand fill without such a deep foundation as piling. At present, such a structure based upon thick sandy fill shall lose the foundation stability in the dry season under the monsoon climate of South-eastern Asia. The amazing mechanism, standing for 700 years, has been identified as the unsaturated characteristics of well compacted silty sand.
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