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Laboratory investigation of pullout behavior of strengthened geogrid with concrete pieces in fine sand

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The use of geogrid as an extensible material in the soil reinforcement has increased significantly; moreover, its effects on the efficiency of soil reinforcement are essential for the stability analysis and the design of reinforced soil structures under pullout conditions. This paper aims to investigate the feasibility of utilizing strengthened geogrids to reinforce the fine sand. The system is composed of a geogrid as a longitudinal member and concrete cubic pieces as a transverse reinforcement member. Transverse concrete cubic pieces tied to some nodes of geogrid in order to create a three-dimensional strengthened object which is called geogrid concrete. The ratio of the distance between transverse members divided by the transverse member height was between 5 and 10. Large-scale pullout tests were conducted under normal stresses of 20 and 50 kPa. The results revealed that the use of the new system caused the pullout force to increase by about 76 and 67% under 20 and 50 kPa normal stresses, respectively, compared to the geogrid alone.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran

    Alireza Beyranvand, Seyed Hamid Lajevardi & Seyed Mohammad Mirhosseini

  2. Faculty of Civil Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

    Mahmoud Ghazavi

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Beyranvand, A., Lajevardi, S.H., Ghazavi, M. et al. Laboratory investigation of pullout behavior of strengthened geogrid with concrete pieces in fine sand. Innov. Infrastruct. Solut. 6, 207 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41062-021-00575-0

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