This paper addresses unpaved and paved roads improved with geosynthetics, such as geotextiles, geogrids and geocells. The paper examines the mechanisms associated with the use of geosynthetics to improve roads, describes the principles of the design methods used to quantify the benefits of geosynthetics used in unpaved and paved roads, presents case histories to demonstrate the use of geosynthetics to solve challenging road problems, and discusses the relevance of tests and trials to real roads. This paper is supplemented by four presentations in pdf format that contain more than 800 slides. These four presentations are updated versions of the four presentations made during a one-day short course at the 11th International Conference on Geosynthetics held in Seoul, Korea, in September 2018. The paper that follows contains a summary of each of the four presentations, with special emphasis on key issues.
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J.P. Giroud;
J.P. Giroud
1Consulting Engineer, Paris, France, E-mail: jpg@jpgiroud.com (corresponding author)
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J. Han;
J. Han
2Professor, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA, E-mail: jiehan@ku.edu
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E. Tutumluer;
E. Tutumluer
3Professor, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, E-mail: tutumlue@illinois.edu
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M.J.D. Dobie
M.J.D. Dobie
4Regional Manager Asia Pacific, Tensar International, Menara Sentraya, Jakarta, Indonesia, E-mail: mdobie@tensar.co.id
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Received:
December 23 2020
Accepted:
October 18 2021
Online ISSN: 1751-7613
Print ISSN: 1072-6349
© 2022 Thomas Telford Ltd
2022
Geosynthetics International (2023) 30 (1): 47–80.
Article history
Received:
December 23 2020
Accepted:
October 18 2021
Citation
Giroud J, Han J, Tutumluer E, Dobie M (2023), "The use of geosynthetics in roads". Geosynthetics International, Vol. 30 No. 1 pp. 47–80, doi: https://doi.org/10.1680/jgein.21.00046
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