LOAD-CARRYING CAPACITY OF A SOIL LAYER SUPPORTED BY A GEOSYNTHETIC OVERLYING A VOID ---PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THEORY AND PRACTICE OF EARTH REINFORCEMENT, FUKUOKA, KYUSHU, JAPAN, 5-7 OCTOBER 1988

This paper presents equations and charts to design soil layer-geosynthetic systems overlying voids such as cracks, sinkholes, and cavities. These equations and charts were developed by combining tensioned membrane theory (for the geosynthetic) with arching theory (for the soil layer), thereby providing a more realistic design approach than one that considers tensioned membrane theory only. Equations and charts are presented for the case of a soil layer subjected to a uniformly distributed normal stress and overlying either an infinitly long void (plane-strain problem) or a circular void (axisymmetric problem). For the covering abstract of the symposium see IRRD 818063.

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  AA Balkema

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• Authors:
  • Giroud, J P
  • Bonaparte, R
  • BEECH, J F
  • Gross, B A
• Publication Date: 1988

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 185-90
• Serial:
  • Publication of: AA BALKEMA
  • Publisher: AA Balkema

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bearing capacity; Charts; Conferences; Design; Foundations; Geotextiles; Granular materials; Mathematical models; Mechanically stabilized earth; Porosity; Soils; Tension
• Uncontrolled Terms: Membranes
• Old TRIS Terms: Membranes (Biology)
• Subject Areas: Design; Geotechnology;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00486997
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• ISBN: 90-6191-820-0
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 30 1989 12:00AM