THEORY AND PRACTICE OF 'REINFORCING' STEEP SLOPES WITH NONWOVEN GEOTEXTILES ---PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THEORY AND PRACTICE OF EARTH REINFORCEMENT, FUKUOKA, KYUSHU, JAPAN, 5-7 OCTOBER 1988

A new design theory for geotextile reinforced earth structures is presented combining horizontal reinforcement and the effect of earth filled bags as gravity retaining wall. Beside the principle and a design example resulting in a much smaller required tensile strength of the reinforcing geotextile, two important topics are dealt with: the improvement of shear strength of the fill material by compaction and drainage in the geotextile plane, and the long-term in-soil stress-strain characteristic of nonwoven needlepunched geotextiles. Finally, some practical examples of constructed walls using a nonwoven needlepunched pp-endlessfibre geotextile are reported.(a) for the covering abstract of the symposium see IRRD 818063.

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  AA Balkema

  P.O. Box 1675
  Rotterdam,   Netherlands  BR-3000
• Authors:
  • RESL, S
  • SCHNEIDER, H
  • WERNER, G
• Publication Date: 1988

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 565-70
• Serial:
  • Publication of: AA BALKEMA
  • Publisher: AA Balkema

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Deformation; Design; Earth pressure; Geotextiles; Mechanically stabilized earth; Nonwoven materials; Retaining walls; Slope stability; Soil mechanics; Stresses; Theory
• Uncontrolled Terms: Active earth pressure; Needles
• Subject Areas: Design; Geotechnology;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00487038
• 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