Department of Civil Engineering

REINFORCED SOIL STRUCTURES

Supervisor:
Dr. A. Suchith Reddy
Assistant Professor, CED.

Coordinators:
Dr.M.B. Sushma
Assistant Professor, CED. Student Name: P.Tharuni Sai Sri
Sri.B. Srikanth Roll No: B19CE003
Assistant Professor, CED.
Objectives:
• The main objective for reinforcing the soil is to increase the
strength and stability of the soil.
• To know the different types of soil reinforcements.
• To know the applications of the soil reinforcements such as in
embankments, foundations, slopes and pavements.
INTRODUCTION
• Soil reinforcement is usually performed by placing tensile
elements in the soil to improve the stability and strength
of the soil.
• It is opted to improve the engineering and mechanical
properties of soil.
• Reinforced soil bed increase the bearing capacity of the
soil and reduce the differential settlement of soil bed.
• It is a cost effective technique to improve tensile and
bearing strength of the soil.
Why to study?
• The existing soil at a site may not be always suitable for
supporting the structures like dams, bridges etc.
• The soil present at the site may be very loose and has a large
elastic settlement.
• In such cases the soil needs to be improved to increase its
shear strength and load bearing capacity.
• Soil reinforcement is necessary in lands where chances of
erosion are high.
• If the construction site has very soft soil then reinforcement is
to be provided as it cannot provide adequate support to any
construction.
Types of reinforcements
• Strip Reinforcement
Commonly strips are used of metals such as galvanised
steel,aluminium-magnesium alloy, chrome Stainless Steel.
• Grid Reinforcement
Raw materials used in geogrids are polypropylene, polyester
or polystyrene.
• Sheet Reinforcement
This can be made from galvanised steel, fabric or expanded
metal.
Applications
• Generally used in retaining walls, embankments,
underground structures, dams
 Literature Review
Title of the Journal Journal name, Year of Authors name Summary
publication
Tensile strength of fiber- Journal of materials in Chao-Sheng Tang, De- Polypropylene fibers are
reinforced soil Civil Engineering, 2016 Yin Wang, Yu-Jun Cui, used as reinforcing
Bin Shi material. The soil tensile
strength and cracking
resistance are
determined by carrying
out a series of tensile
and desiccation tests on
reinforced and
unreinforced soil
specimens.
Soil improvement by American Journal of Md Asaduzzaman,Md The experiment was
using bamboo Engineering Research, Iftiarul Islam carried out on various
reinforcement 2014 bamboo layer systems in
different depths.The
bearing capacity and
settlement of the
footing on soil depends
on the properties of the
soil.
Title of the journal Journal name, year of Authors name Summary
publication
Research on the Springer, 2021 Troung Son Bui, Ba Thao This paper describes
reinforcement of Basalt Vu, Thi Nu Nguyen, about the application of
soil using natural Thang Duong Nguyen natural pozzolan in
pozzolan, cement, and combination with some
lime for building rural binders to build rural
roads in Dak Nong road structure.The
Province, Vietnam reinforced soil can
withstand in flooding
conditions also.
Behavior of soil Elsevier, 2016 M.Inanc Onur, Mustafa In this study, behavior of
reinforcements in slopes Tuncan, Burak Evirgen, supported slopes with
Bertan Ozdemir, Ahmet geotextiles and geogrids
Tuncan were analysed by
performing experiments
on slope models in
laboratory. The
deformation and stress
at failure by plaxis
program and laboratory
experiments of both the
reinforcements were
compared.
 Methodology 1 :

Title : Tensile strength of fiber-reinforced soil

• In this paper, the soil tensile strength is determined by carrying out a series of
tensile and desiccation tests on reinforced/unreinforced soil specimens.
• Direct tensile tests were conducted on fiber-reinforced soil specimens with
different fiber contents and compacted at different water contents and dry
densities. This test was performed on 26 test groups each test group consisted 3
identical specimens.
• Desiccation tests were also performed to determine the cracking resistance on
slurry mixture. A camera was installed above the specimens to take surface
images of desiccation crack patterns.
Result
• Due to the presence of fibers,the tensile strength was increased and the failure brittleness
reduced.
• It was found that as the fiber content increased from 0 to 0.2% for specimens compacted
at 16.5% water content and 1,700 Kg/m 3 dry density, the tensile strength increased by
51.69%.
• Compared with unreinforced soil, the soil reinforced with 0.25% fiber content exhibited a
decrease in surface cracks of 51.19%.
Methodology 2:
Title : Research on the reinforcement of basalt
soil using natural pozzolan, cement, lime
for building rural roads in Dak Nong
Province, Vietnam
Experiments are conducted in this study are as follows:
(1) Compaction of soil reinforced with natural pozzolan, cement, and lime with
different proportions to determine the maximum dry density (MDD) and optimum
moisture content (OMC) of the reinforced mixture.
(2)Preparing cylindrical samples with an inner diameter d=110mm, a height
h=120mm at MDD and OMC.
(3) conducting compression tests for reinforced soil mixture at 14 days of age with
the saturated condition.
(4) Based on the compressive strength in the saturated condition at 14 days of
curing, the reasonable mixture was selected.
(5) For the reasonable selected mixture, the compressive strength, splitting
strength, elastic modulus, and CBR were determined at 7 days, 14 days, 28 days,
and 90 days of curing. The mechanical properties at 28 days of curing in saturated
condition were also determined.
Result
• It was found that the reinforced soil has a stable structure when interacting with water,
which means it can withstand flooding conditions.
• The mechanical properties of P10C5L4 increased significantly in the first 28 days and tend
to slowly increase after28 days of curing.
• The increase of pozzolan exceeding 10% led to a decrease in compressive strength.
Comparative Analysis:
Paper 1:
• They used polypropylene fibers as reinforcing
material.
• In this tensile strength and cracking resistance of
both reinforced and unreinforced soil specimens
were determined.
Paper 2:
• They used natural pozzolan, cement, lime as
reinforcing materials.
• In this mechanical properties of the soil were
determined.
Conclusion
• By using this technique differential settlement is
eliminated and bearing capacity is increased.
• This technique is used to reduce the quantity of
earth fill.
• Fibre reinforcement increases the tensile strength
of soil with an increase in dry density.
References
• Tang, C. S., Wang, D. Y., Cui, Y. J., Shi, B., & Li, J. (2016).
Tensile strength of fiber-reinforced soil. Journal of Materials
in Civil Engineering, 28(7), 04016031.
• Asaduzzaman, M., & Islam, M. I. (2014). Soil improvement
by using bamboo reinforcement. Am. J. Eng. Res, 3(8), 362-
368.
• Bui, T. S., Vu, B. T., Nguyen, T. N., & Nguyen, T. D. (2021).
Research on the Reinforcement of Basalt Soil Using Natural
Pozzolan, Cement, and Lime for Building Rural Roads in Dak
Nong Province, Vietnam. In Proceedings of the 3rd
International Conference on Sustainability in Civil
Engineering (pp. 195-201). Springer, Singapore.
• Onur, M. I., Tuncan, M., Evirgen, B., Ozdemir, B., &
Tuncan, A. (2016). Behavior of soil reinforcements in
slopes. Procedia engineering, 143, 483-489.
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