Abstract
It is of interest, for a developing country like India, to use natural and low-cost reinforcement material in rural roads. Bamboo is a locally and cheaply available alternative as a reinforcement material in place of commercial geosynthetic materials. The tridirectional bamboo grid is a new innovative reinforcement of the limited life geotextiles (LLGs) family. The present paper reports the experimental results of plate load tests conducted on sand overlying a soft clay. The model plate load tests were carried out to study the influence of the tridirectional and bidirectional bamboo grid with jute geotextile on the bearing capacity of soft marine clay. A mild steel tank with dimensions of 0.7 m × 0.7 m × 0.6 m and a square model footing size of 100 mm × 100 mm were used for all laboratory model tests. It was observed that by making a suitable modification in the aperture shape of reinforcement, the bearing capacity and settlement resistance of soft clay could be improved. The model test results show that the tridirectional bamboo grid offers superior performance compared to the bidirectional bamboo grid.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Gourc JP, Matichard Y, Perier H, Delmas P (1982) Capacite Portant d’un Bicouhe, Sable sur Sol Mou, Reinforce par Geotextile. In: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on geotextiles, vol 2, pp 411–417
Sridharan A, Srinivasa Murthy BR, Bindumadhava F, Vasudervan AK (1988) Reinforced soil foundation on soft soil. In: Proceedings of the 1st Indian geotextiles conference, pp C.53–C.60
Das BM (1989) Foundation sand underlain by soft clay with geotextile at sand-clay interface. In: Proceedings of the geosynthetics ‘89 conference, vol 1, pp 203–214
Dembicki E, Alenowicz J (1990) Influence of geotextiles on bearing capacity of two-layer subsoil. Constr Build Mater 4(1):49–52
Alenowicz J, Dembicki E (1991) Recent laboratory research on unpaved road behaviour. Geotext Geomembr 10(1):21–34
Lee KM, Manjunath VR, Dewaikar DM (1999) Numerical and model studies of strip footing supported by a reinforced granular fill–soft soil system. Can Geotech J 36(5):793–806
Som N, Sahu RB (1999) Bearing capacity of a geotextile–reinforced unpaved road as a function of deformation: a model study. Geosynth Int 6(1):1–17
Mandal JN, Sah HS (1992) Bearing capacity tests on geogrid-reinforced clay. Geotext Geomembr 11(3):327–333
Khing KH, Das BM, Puri VK, Yen SC, Cook EE (1994) Foundation on strong sand underlain by weak clay with geogrid at the interface. Geotext Geomembr 13(3):199–206
Alawaji HA (2001) Settlement and bearing capacity of geogrid reinforced sand over collapsible soil. Geotext Geomembr 19(2):75–88
Demir A, Laman A, Yildiz A, Ornek M (2013) Large scale field tests on geogrid reinforced granular fill underlain by clay soil. Geotext Geomembr 38:1–15
Akinmusuru AM, Akinbolade JA (1981) Stability of loaded footings on reinforced soil. ASCE J Geotech Eng Div 107(GT6):819–827
Dixit RK (1985) Experimental investigations of model square footing in reinforced sand. M. Tech. thesis, IIT Bombay, Mumbai
Mandal JN (1987) Geotextiles in India. Geotext Geomembr 6(4):253–274
Ramanatha Ayyar TS, Joseph J, Beena KS (1988) Bearing capacity of sand reinforced with coir rope. In: Proceedings of the 1st Indian geotextiles conference, pp C.53–C.60
Mandal JN, Manjunath VR (1994) Bearing capacity of strip footing resting on reinforced sand subgrades. Constr Build Mater 9(1):35–38
Datye KR, Gore VN (1994) Geotextile bamboo fascine mattress for filling over very soft soils in Malaysia. Geotext Geomembr 13(6–7):371–388
Khatib A (2009) Bearing capacity of granular soil overlying soft clay reinforced with bamboo-geotextile composite at the interface. Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of Geotechnics and Transportation, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Univ. Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Hegde A, Sitharam TG (2015) Use of bamboo in soft-ground engineering and its performance comparison with geosynthetics: experimental studies. J Mater Civ Eng 27(9):04014256
Dutta S, Mandal JN (2016) Model studies on geocell-reinforced fly ash bed overlying soft clay. J Mater Civ Eng 28(2):04015091
Ye F, Fu W (2017) Physical and mechanical characterization of fresh bamboo for infrastructure projects. J Mater Civ Eng 30(2). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0002132
Ahirwar SK, Mandal JN (2018) Behaviour of bamboo grid-reinforced soil bed. Int J Geotech Eng. https://doi.org/10.1080/19386362.2018.1550909
Basu G, Roy AN, Bhattacharyya SK, Ghosh SK (2009) Construction of unpaved rural road using jute–synthetic blended woven geotextile—a case study. Geotext Geomembr 27(6):506–512
Sanyal T, Chakraborty K (1994) Application of a bitumen-coated jute geotextile in bank-protection works in the Hooghly estuary. Geotext Geomembr 13(2):67–132
Saha P, Roy D, Manna S, Adhikari B, Sen R, Roy S (2012) Durability of transesterified jute geotextiles. Geotext Geomembr 35:69–75
Gnanaharan R (2000) Preservative treatment methods for bamboo: a review. KFRI research report, 177, pp 1–19
Prasad DSV, Kumar AM, Prasada Raju GVR (2010) Behavior of reinforced sub bases on expansive. Glob J Res Eng 10(1):2–8
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2022 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Ahirwar, S.K., Mandal, J.N. (2022). Effect of Natural Reinforcement Aperture Shape on Bearing Capacity of Reinforced Soil. In: Tutumluer, E., Nazarian, S., Al-Qadi, I., Qamhia, I.I. (eds) Advances in Transportation Geotechnics IV. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 165. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77234-5_55
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77234-5_55
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-77233-8
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-77234-5
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)