...-compacted conditions of the soil barrier and fiber content were held constant, and the thickness of the soil barrier and the fiber type are varied. The performance of the soil barrier with and without geofiber reinforcement having an overburden pressure equivalent to that of landfill covers was monitored...

...A. Das; B.V.S. Viswanadham ABSTRACT : The objective of this paper is, through laboratory experiments, to examine the effect of discrete and randomly distributed fibers on the piping behavior of soil. A silty sand type of soil having 20% fines was selected in the present study. Two types...

... molded at three different water contents. Polypropylene tape fibers were used in this study as reinforcing elements. The test results showed that the geofibers were effective in improving the tensile strength–strain characteristics of the moist-compacted fine-grained soils used in the present study...

...J. Mitchell-Blackwood; P. L. Gurian; A. Kumar; M. Sarich Polypropylene fibers present favorable physical, hydraulic and specific surface area properties for use as a raw material or substrate in developing a novel iron-oxide-coated medium for the adsorption of heavy metals from drinking water...

...N. M. Al-Akhras; M. F. Attom; K. M. Al-Akhras; A. I. H. Malkawi This study investigated the effect of two types of fibers (natural and synthetic) on the swelling properties of clayey soils. Nylon and palmyra fibers with different aspect ratios (L/d) were mixed with three types...