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Effect of Geotexile and Coir Geocell On CBR Strength of Subgrade Soil
Effect of Geotexile and Coir Geocell On CBR Strength of Subgrade Soil
Effect of Geotexile and Coir Geocell On CBR Strength of Subgrade Soil
ISSN No:-2456-2165
Abstract:- Nowadays it is a big challenge for civil Evaluate the influence of geotextiles and geocell.
engineers to do construction in poor soil with high loads. To compare the CBR values of geotextile and geocell.
Such weak soil can be improved by different ground To study the cost effectiveness.
improvement techniques. Soil reinforcement is one of the
most popular ground improvement techniques and this III. SCOPE
technique is used in this study. In this study the feasibitly
of the soil as a subgrade material for pavement The scope of present study is limited to, investigation of
construction. A series of model tests has been carried out influence of reinforcement of locally available poor soil as a
to develop an understanding of the influence of the sustainable subgrade for construction.. The geotextiles and
geotextile and geocell on the subgrade soil. Geotextiles geocell could fulfill the functions as reinforcement material.
used here are two nonwoven geosynthetics, woven coir Therefore in this study we are attempting to improve the
geotextile and geocell prepared from coir geotextile. The strength of locally available weak soil by using geotextiles and
geocells mattresses were prepared by placing the coir geocells and evaluate the influence of geotextiles and geocell
strips in transverse and diagonal directions with joints at on CBR value.
the connections. The performance of geotextiles and
geocell is obtained based on the CBR load –penetration IV. LITERATURE REVIEW
relation. Soaked and unsoaked CBR test are conducted
with geotextiles and geocell.CBR value shows that the Until recently, few studies have reported on the effect of
strength of soil is improved with the inclusion of geotextiles geotextile and coir geocells behavior. Huang (2004) prepared
and geocell. a study which concentrates on the effect of input wheel load
and output stress or stain that is produced in the pavement.
Keywords:- Geosynthatics, coir geotexiles, geocells, CBR. The advantages of mechanistic methods are the improvement
in the reliability of a design, the ability to predict the types of
I. INTRODUCTION distress, and the feasibility to extrapolate from limited field. It
must be noted that the Geocell material can be selected based
Nowadays innovative ground improvement techniques on the field requirements. And Emersleben and Meyer (2008)
practiced all over the world. Mainly used method is in his journal paper, describes about the surface deflection and
reinforcement with geotextiles, geomembranes and geocells. vertical pressure on the subgrade which can be reduced by the
They offer the advantages such as environmental sensitivity, use of geocells. The effect of geocells shows that performance
space saving, material availability, technical superiority, improved as the height to diameter ratio was increased. The
higher cost saving and less construction time .The use of geocells not only reduced the amount of material
fundamental properties, such as tensile strength, filtering, required, but it also improved the speed of construction.
water permeability and drainage can be improved by inserting
geotexitles between subbase and base material. The strength V. METHODOLOGY
and rigidity of pavement structures, which often fail when
before their design life and geosynthetics reinforcement is the A. Collection and Characterization of materials
best method to improve such properties of pavements. Efforts
are made in this direction in the present study. The materials used in this study are soil and non woven
In this study a series of CBR tests were conducted with geotexile, coir geotextile and geocell.
geotextiles and geocells of different type as reinforcement to
soil proposed to be used as subgrade material for pavement Soil
construction and the results of test were analysised and Locally available soil is used for the present study. The
compared. summary of the index and engineering parameters of the tests
done in the accordance with the respective Indian Standard
II. OBJECTIVES Specifications. Based on the tests done, the soil is classified as
MI.
To determine engineering properties of soil.
Load(Kg)
parameters is analyzed and relevant observations are made.
Layer(1)
200 100 Layer(2)
180
Layer(3)
160 50
140
Load(Kg)
120
100 0
Soaked 0 5 10
80
60 Unsoaked Pentration(mm)
40
Fig 2:- CBR curves for coir geotexiles
20
0
0 5 10 350
Pentration(mm) 300
Load(Kg) 250
Fig 1:- CBR curves for soaked and unsoaked soil alone 200
Geocell(4)
150
SL STATE CBR VALUE CBR VALUE
NO UNSOAKED SOAKED 100 Coir three
1 Soil 6.42% 4.17% layer
50
2 Soil+ geotextile 7.25% 6.42%
(F-46) 0
3 Soil+ 6.86% 5.1% 0 5 10
geotextile(F-32)
4 Soil+ coir 6.61% 4.47% Pentration(mm)
geotextile (one
layer)
Fig 3:- CBR curves for coir geotexiles
5 Soil+ coir 6.71% 4.72%
geotextile (two
layer) 12
6 Soil+ coir 7.23% 5.10% 10
geotextile(3 8
layer) 6
7 Soil+ geotextile 8.65% 8.24% 4
2
(F -32)+ Coir (3
0
layer)
8 Soil+ geocell(3) 9.25% 8.71%
9 Soil+ geocell(4) 11.12% 10.82%
Table 5. Shows variation of CBR value with different
geotextiles and geocell.
Unsoaked Soaked
Fig 4:- Variation of CBR value for soaked and unsoaked tests
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