AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS ON PHYSICAL MODEL BASED ON KHOSLA’S THEORY OF INDEPENDENT VARIABLES
| Author(s) | : | Milan K Chudasama |
| Institution | : | Civil Engineering Department, Shantilal Shah Engineering College, Bhavnagar, Gujarat |
| Published In | : | Vol. 5, Issue 3 — March 2018 |
| Page No. | : | 940-948 |
| Domain | : | Engineering |
| Type | : | Research Paper |
| ISSN (Online) | : | 2348-4470 |
| ISSN (Print) | : | 2348-6406 |
In this experimental work, a physical model of weir with three cut offs/sheet piles is constructed bytransparent acrylic sheets. At the cut offs, transparent vertical hollow tubes are arranged in such a way that the upwardmovement of waters in the tubes can be observed and measured. The model is filled up with sand i.e. non cohesive soil.Model also contains tank like arrangement in which water can be filled. The water seeps beneath the floor of the weir. Asthe water completes its path, the soil material gets saturated gradually and the upward movement of water in the tubescan be observed and measured. The levels of water in the tubes represents uplift pressure of seeping water on the floor atvarious key points. The model is thus validated as per khosla’t theory of independent variable.To see the effect of pile inclination on uplift pressure, the sheet piles are inclined at various angles with respect to thefloor of the weir. According to graphical analysis the uplift pressures increases or decreases when piles are inclined atdifferent positions as compared to that while all the piles are in vertical positions.
Milan K Chudasama, “AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS ON PHYSICAL MODEL BASED ON KHOSLA’S THEORY OF INDEPENDENT VARIABLES”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 5, Issue 3, pp. 940-948, March 2018.
