Four Full-Scale Model Tests of Geosynthetic-Reinforced Soil Structure Carried out in Kanazawa, Japan

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In the current design code, the geosynthetic-reinforcement is considered by assuming the gain of tensile strength. This interpretation for geosynthetic-reinforcement is easy to handle in the engineering practice of design work but it might be far from the real mechanism of geosynthetic-reinforcement. Then, the authors organized a research project to ensure and examine the real geosynthetic-reinforcement mechanism and constructed four full-scale geosynthetic-reinforced soil structures in Kanazawa. These soil structures were loaded and were led to various kinds of failure patterns at each final stage where deformation of structures and tensile strain of geosynthetic-reinforcement materials were monitored during the tests. This paper introduces these four full-scale model tests and reports the monitored results. Some comments on the geosynthetic-reinforcement mechanism obtained through constructing these full-scale model tests are also presented.
国際ジオシンセティックス学会日本支部の論文