Structural Efficiency and Economy of Shells Foundations

This thesis introduces shell foundation as the economic alternative to traditional foundations. Through study a type of traditional foundation and two types of shell foundations. So that the foundations are based on weak soil possessing the same properties, and is subject to a high structural load. In this paper, hyperbolic and conical shell footings were designed and compared with sloped square footing. The result were found that , the shell footing more economical than sloped footing , in terms of the size of the concrete mass and the amount of reinforcing steel area. As follows, hyperbolic 48.1%, conical 41%. Mohammed Faisal Mohammed | Bipin Kumar Singh | Vikas Kumar Pandey"Structural Efficiency and Economy of Shells Foundations" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-3 , April 2018, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd11642.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/civil-engineering/11642/structural-efficiency-and-economy-of-shells-foundations/mohammed-faisal-mohammed