... where the evolution of soil arching and the development of subsoil consolidation have been synthetically considered. The main innovation is that the effect of the soil-reinforcement interface interaction is particularly focused. The proposed method is validated based on the field test results...

... test Soil arching Instrumentation The induced trench installation (ITI) method (also known as the imperfect trench installation method) has been implemented for many years to reduce vertical earth pressures acting on buried rigid pipes under high embankment fills. In this method, a relatively...

..., respectively. The tensile stiffness values at 2% tensile strain of R1 and R2 were 114.5 and 50.5 kN/m, respectively. © 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Geosynthetics Reinforcement arrangements Localised static loading Load transfer Soil arching Spring-based trapdoor test Table 2 shows...

... that combines several phenomena such as the concentric arches model in cohesive fill soils, the hyperbolic model for the isochrone geogrid curve, and subsoil's consolidation. Three-dimensional numerical analyses are also conducted to evaluate the embankment soil cohesion influence on the soil arching. Both...

... in a GRPS embankment: (a) approximation of the load distribution resulting from arching and (b) concentric arches explaining the load distribution Soil arching is a common phenomenon found in many earth structures in geotechnical engineering applications such as buried pipes and culverts, tunnels...

... of load cycles. The number of geosynthetic reinforcement layers does not appear to influence the soil arching and cumulative settlements. Three-dimensional numerical simulations of the GRPS embankments by FEM were conducted in the ABAQUS/CEA software (HKS 2014) in the study. The embankment, soft soil...

... towards improving the understanding of the processes involved, including a more precise identification of the effect of environmental conditions on the soil arching process, embankment settlements, and stress/strain in geosynthetic reinforcement (GR). (1) All commonly applied design procedures...

... approaches are applicable to the design of induced trench rigid pipes with TDA inclusions. 03 11 2017 10 01 2018 08 02 2018 © 2018 Thomas Telford Ltd 2018 Geosynthetics Tire-derived aggregate (TDA) Induced trench Rigid pipe Soil arching Numerical modelling High embankment...

...C. Xu; S. Song; J. Han A geosynthetic-reinforced pile-supported (GRPS) embankment that consists of embankment fill, geosynthetic, piles, and foundation soils is a complex soil–structure system. Its key load transfer mechanisms include soil arching and tensioned membrane effects and subsoil...

... installed with one side fixed in the existing embankment to provide enough anchorage in the physical model tests. Settlements of the embankment, strains in the geogrids and earth pressures were monitored during the test. The test results show that the geogrid layers stabilised the soil arching...