A Project Report

on
Road Improvements
Using
Geo-Textiles
 ABSTRACT
Highways are the public roads which
connect one or more destinations. Daily 66% of
world population use these road ways to reach
their destinations. On the way to destination so
many accidents are occurring out of them due to
uneven roads percent is more.
So we selected our project to improve that
situation of roads using geo-textiles in roads as we
can use these in both Rigid as well as in Flexible
pavements.
The main objective of our project is to
provide driver comfort by developing quality of
roads, and increase traffic safety on roads.
 PRESENTATION OUTLINE
 Introduction
 Problem statement
 Pavement failures
 Objectives of Road Improvements
 Road improvements using Geo-textiles
 Types of geo-textiles
 Different tests made on geo-textiles
 Installation of Geo-textiles on roads
 Pavement structure
 Conclusion
 INTRODUCTION
 Development of a country depends on the
connectivity of various places with adequate
road network.
 Roads constitute the most important mode of
communication in areas where railways have
not developed much.
 India has one of the largest road networks in
the world (over 3 million km at present).
 For the purpose of management and
administration roads in India are classified
into five types.
 PROBLEM STATEMENT
 Due to uneven settlements we can see some
failures in case of Rigid pavements.
 Some of failures commonly seen,
 Shrinkage cracks
 Panel cracking
 Corner cracking
 Mud pumping
 Structural cracking
 In order to counterfeit all the failures we use
an improvement technique using geotextiles.
 COMMON FAILURES SEEN ON RIGID
PAVEMENTS.

1. Shrinkage cracks

2. Mud pumping
3. Corner
breaking

4. Panel
cracking
OBJECTIVES OF ROAD IMPROVEMENTS

 To increase structural stability of roads.

 To develop smooth flow of traffic.
 To provide comfort and safety for the users
as well as drivers.
 To increase the durability of roads.
 To reduce maintenance cost.
 GEO-TEXTILES
 Geotextiles are permeable and impermeable
fabrics which, when used in association with
soil, have the ability to separate, filter,
reinforce, protect, or drain.
 Made from polypropylene or polyester,
geotextile fabrics come in three basic forms:
woven, needle punched,heat bonded.
 First used in 1950s with R.J. Barrett using
geotextiles behind precast concrete
seawalls.
 TYPES OF GEO-TEXTILES
 Woven type

 Non-woven type

 Knitted type
 DIFFERENT TESTS MADE ON
GEOTEXTILES
 Mass
 Thickness
 Tensile strength
 Trapezoidal tear
 Grab tensile
 Puncture (CBR)
 Dart (Drop Cone)
 MASS TEST
 Cut five to ten specimens, each of an area not
less than 10,000 mm2.
 Dimensions are measured without applying
any tension.

 Measure the mass of the samples accurate to

0.01g.
 Mass per unit area = total mass/total area.
 THICKNESS TEST
 Distance between the upper and lower
surfaces of a fabric at a pressure of 2kPa.
 Expressed in mm.

 Woven geo-textiles 0.25 to 1mm.

 Nonwoven geo-textiles 1mm to more than 10
mm.
TENSILE STRENGTH TEST
 Wide width tests 200mm wide and 100 mm
length.
 Narrow strip tests 50mm wide strips used for
tests.

 Load applied at 10-20% strain per minute

 Result is reported in units of force/unit
width and the strain at peak load.
 GRAB TENSILE STRENGTH TEST
 Construction survivability
test.

 Especially for a separator

applications in pavements.

 25mm wide narrow grips used

to perform the test.

 Test result is force in

newton’s and rupture strain.

 Loading at 300 mm per

minute.
 PUNCTURE(CBR) TEST
 Probe is 50mm diameter.
 Container is 150mm diameter.

 10 specimens across roll width.

 Average value is reported.
 DART (DROP CONE) TEST
 8 mm diameter probe punched into a
stretched geo-textile.

 Container diameter is 45 mm.

 Peak load developed is reported in Newton’s.
USE OF GEOTEXTILE IN PAVEMENTS
 Separation
 Moisture barrier
 Drainage
 Stabilization
INSTALLATION OF GEO-TEXTILE
 Application of nonwoven geotextile materials.

 Galvanized discs used to secure the fabric.

 Overlap of nonwoven geotextile material sections .

 Fastening nonwoven geotextile fabric to existing

concrete pavement and paving.
 PAVEMENT STRUCTURE

Pavement with and without Geo-Textile

 CONCLUSION
So here by we would like to conclude that
through the use of geo-synthetics in the field
of civil engineering we can achieve adequate
strength to the designed constructions.
So in our project we have used Geo-
textile on the subgrade layer as a moisture
barrier, stabilizer to achieve stabilization and
strength to the pavement there by providing
better quality and safety on roads.
THANK YOU