... after inducing a distortion level of 0.125. Analysis and interpretation of the test results indicate the significant potential for geofiber reinforcement to decrease and to retard soil crack potential in a discrete and randomly distributed soil barrier reinforced with geofibers, while retaining its...

...B.V.S. Viswanadham; B.K. Jha; S.N. Pawar ABSTRACT: Earth structures constructed of fine-grained soils have a tendency to crack. One possible solution to this problem is the inclusion of discrete and randomly distributed geofibers. The purpose of the research presented herein was to assess...

...J.P. Giroud Some high-density polyethylene geomembranes are more susceptible to stress cracking than others. When they are exposed to very low temperatures, these geomembranes may be shattered, i.e. they exhibit cracks (called shattering cracks) in many directions. This paper is devoted...