Anchoring effect of geotextile in sand

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

12-1-2008

Abstract

Interface friction between woven geotextile and sand was investigated using pullout tests on geotextile widths 76mm to 305mm and embedment depths 305mm to 1219mm. Previously reported research indicated that in pullout tests the interface resistance between geotextile and sand decreased as the width of the embedment increased. For embedment depths up to 610mm the geotextile behaved like an anchor and at failure a mass of soil surrounding the geotextile was uplifted as in uplift tests of footings. From geometry of the uplifted soil it was possible to show that the pullout stress developed on geotextile face was the same regardless of its width. Failure occurred at geotextile-soil interface for embedment of 915mm or more and the pullout stress decreased with increasing embedment depth.

Identifier

84869822094 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9781622761760]

Publication Title

12th International Conference on Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics 2008

First Page

1285

Last Page

1290

Volume

2

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