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The NH5 is a 1,000 km long highway passing mostly through Andhra Pradesh, connecting Chennai with Kolkata via short stretches of NH60 and NH6. The Dharmavaram-Tuni Package involves a 47 km long four-lane highway that is part of the Vijayawada to Vishakhapatnam Section of NH5. Construction of the geogrid reinforced segmental retaining wall for this project was carried out at four different locations along the highway. The total constructed wall facing area was approximately 25,000 m2, with wall heights of up to 13.6 m. The fascia units used were 200 mm high, proprietary, dry cast concrete segmental units with smooth faced finish. A total of 142,000 m2 of polymer coated high tenacity polyester geogrids were used as soil reinforcement in the construction of the segmental retaining walls.
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Yee, T.W., Dutta, P. (2008). Geogrid Reinforced Segmental Retaining Wall for NH5, Dharmavaram to Tuni, Andhra Pradesh, India. In: Li, G., Chen, Y., Tang, X. (eds) Geosynthetics in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69313-0_43
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