REVIEW OF THE UPDATED AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS GEOTEXTILE SPECIFICATION

Early in the history of the use of geotextiles in the United States, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), and the Association of General Contractors (AGC) formed Joint Task Force 25 (TF 25) to develop guide specifications for the use of geotextiles on transportation agency projects. The Task Force was made up of representatives of the geotextile industry, private contractors, and state and federal transportation agencies. The resulting work was published in the AASHTO Specification Book as Specification M-288 on Geotextiles. The material properties included in the original work of TF 25 were based on the experience in the use of these materials at the time. As, relatively speaking, the use of geotextiles in the United States was new, and there were very few, if any, accepted design methodologies for geotextiles, the task force took a conservative approach to its work. As experience was gained and design methodologies developed, the need to revisit Specification M-288 was realized. A joint AASHTO and Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) Task Force was formed in 1994 to review and revise the specification. The resulting work was adopted by AASHTO in 1996. It is based on accepted design procedures, but also default material property values should the design procedures not be used.

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  Industrial Fabrics Association International

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• Authors:
  • Suits, L D
• Conference:
  • Geosynthetics '97
  • Location: Long Beach, California, U.S.A.
  • Date: 1997-3-11 to 1997-3-13
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Tables;
• Pagination: p. 715-723

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Design methods; Geotextiles; Properties of materials; Specifications
• Identifier Terms: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials; American Road & Transportation Builders Association; Association of General Contractors; Industrial Fabrics Association International
• Uncontrolled Terms: Task forces
• Subject Areas: Design; Geotechnology; Highways; Materials; I35: Miscellaneous Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00795503
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0935803076
• Report/Paper Numbers: Volume 2
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 19 2000 12:00AM