EFFECT OF AREA DENSITY OF NEEDLE PUNCHED NONWOVEN FABRICS ON CERTAIN PROPERTIES OF GEOTEXTILES. REINFORCED SOIL AND GEOTEXTILES, PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOTEXTILES CONFERENCE HELD AT THE INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BOMBAY, INDIA, DECEMBER 8-9, 1988

Geotextiles are used for a wide variety of civil engineering applications in which their essential functions comprise a combination of separation, filtration and reinforcement. In the last 15 years geotextile consumption has grown to about 300 million metre square and the range of fabrics and their applications are ever widening. In India the use of geotextile in civil engineering work is at a very infant stage. There is a wide scope for the Indian civil engineers to adopt textiles in the form of geotextiles as a permanent part of civil engineering design and of its civil engineering infrastructure. The main hurdle for the growth of geotextiles in India is the high cost of synthetic fibres which are being used as geotextile material. In this work an attempt has been made to find out the effect of area density of different types nonwoven fabrics on the mechanical characteristics of soils with an aim to find out the suitability of lower area density fabrics. Needle punched fabrics of 100, 150, 200 and 250 g/sq m have been used for the study. Textile properties like tensile strength, elongation at break, bursting strength, air and water permeability and civil engineering tests like CB ratio and pore size distribution have been found out. For covering abstract of the conference, see IRRD 836241. (Author/TRRL)

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  Ministry of Communications, Republic of China

  Highway Research Institute, 12 Bei Huan Xi Lu
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  AA Balkema

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• Authors:
  • Talukdar, M K
  • Ray, P
  • Choudhari, G B
  • Karmaker, A K
• Publication Date: 1989

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. A55-60
• Serial:
  • Publication of: CROW
  • Publisher: CROW

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: California bearing ratio; Density; Geotextiles; Length; Nonwoven textiles; Permeability; Pore size distribution; Tearing; Tensile strength
• Uncontrolled Terms: Elongation
• Geographic Terms: India
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00617256
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• ISBN: 90-6191-938-X
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 30 1991 12:00AM