Reinforcing soil under the foundations is becoming a reliable technique due to the advent of materials such as grids/mats that can be made of both natural and synthetic materials. Natural products such as coir mats and coir grids with are emerging as viable reinforcing material, when introduced in the soil. Reinforced soil has performed satisfactory under monotonic/static loadings. Several literatures are available support the above fact [1]. Structural engineers come across situations wherein live loads in a structure may be greater than the dead load of the structure itself. Further these kinds of live loads are also found to change with time, thereby subjecting the underlying soil to the repeated or cyclic loads. Thus the performance of foundations under such situations mainly depends on frequency and amplitude of the cyclic loading. Further, foundations are also subjected to vibrations during seismic activity as well as foundations under machines. Studies on performance of footings under cyclic loading are very few in literatures Gray and Ohashi [2], Chang et al. [3], Gray. and Talal Al-Refeai [4], Guido et al. [5], Raymond & comos [6], Wasti and Butun (1996), Chen et al. [7]. The application of reinforced soil under cyclic load has enormous potential in many applications of civil engineering. It shall be noted that the settlements under cyclic loads are far greater than those produced under static
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