...E. M. Palmeira; A. C. G. Pires Geosynthetics have been used to reinforce soils for over four decades. They can also be used as reinforcement in buried pipe installations to reduce stresses and strains in the pipe, as well as the consequences of pipe explosions. This paper investigates the use...

...S. Chawla; J. T. Shahu; R. K. Gupta The success of a design methodology for railway track depends on its ability to keep the maximum deviator stress induced on the subgrade due to rail traffic below the threshold stress of the subgrade soil. Considering this, the present study proposes a new design...

... free swell and 20 kPa applied stress. It is shown that RH and applied stress play a key role in the hydration behaviour with time when GCL specimens were in equilibrium with water vapour. It was also observed that water uptake and loss was affected by the bentonite form (powdered or granular...

... and physical properties of the GMBs that cannot be simply explained by the increase in the amount of material due to increasing GMB thickness. These differences are explained by differences in the morphological structure of the GMBs arising from the different thermal and stress histories experienced during...

...Yiping Zhang; Tao Li; Yang Wang ABSTRACT: Based on an axisymmetric elastic model, a theoretical solution is obtained for a foundation improved by geosynthetic-encased columns (GEC). The expressions for stress, displacement, and hoop force of the geosynthetic, as well as stress ratio and improvement...

...T. Tao; D.F. Li; J. Yan A geotextile/geomembrane composite liner was placed on the upstream slope of the clay core between the core and rock-fill shoulder to prevent seepage through a rock-fill dam at Zhushou reservoir in China. The paper investigates the coupled effects of stress and seepage...