MODEL TESTING OF REINFORCED SOIL SLOPE WITH FLEXIBLE FACING - Couverture souple

Sharma, Mr. Pravesh Kumar; Tangri, Mr. Amanpreet

 
9781073466917: MODEL TESTING OF REINFORCED SOIL SLOPE WITH FLEXIBLE FACING

Synopsis

Soil stabilization is a general term for any physical, synthetic, organic, or consolidated strategy for changing a characteristic soil to meet a designing reason. This procedure incorporates expanding the load bearing capacities and execution of in-situ soil and sand. Soil nailing is a development procedure that can be utilized as an alternative measure to treat temperamental common soil slants or as a development system that permits the safe over-steepening of new or existing soil inclines. Bars introduced utilizing boring procedures are typically completely grouted and introduced at a slight descending tendency. Soil nail segments may likewise be utilized to settle holding dividers or existing fill inclines like banks and levees and this is ordinarily embraced as a remedial measure. Soil nailing is a cost-effective way to reinforce soil, including inserting a threaded rod into a naturally unstable slope to increase overall stability or to enter the cutting ramp during top-down excavation. Retained soil, resistant reinforcements and exterior facing are the main elements of the soil nail formation. Their composite interaction is used to measure the efficiency of the soil nail structure in terms of deformation and strength. Even though international regulations deal with the possibility of using rigid or flexible exterior facing, the effects of stiffness are not adequately studied and estimated. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to test the strength of different material such as HDPE hexagonal slope protection Geonet, Strata base biaxial polypropylene Geonet, HDPE Drainage Geonet, and Expanded metal mesh are utilized for flexible facing. The experiments are carried out with four nails positioned in horizontal as well as in vertical position in the soil model prepared in Chandigarh University Campus. From the experiment, it is observed that the expanded metal mesh material performs well among other material with maximum stress of 80 Kg/cm2. Also, a comparison of maximum stress between flexible facing (with & without facing) and flexible facing with rigid facing is performed. It is being analyzed that the rigid facing has tolerated maximum stress about 98 Kg/cm2 compared to soil slope with flexible facing and without facing.

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