Composite reinforcement for reinforced soil applications

Babu, Sivakumar GL and Sridharan, A and Babu, Kishore K (2003) Composite reinforcement for reinforced soil applications. In: Soils and Foundations, 43 (2). pp. 123-128.

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Abstract

Composite reinforcements achieve the desired performance with a synergetic action from two components. In this paper, development of a composite reinforcement system, made of high tensile steel wire, encased in a cement mortar as a viable system for soil reinforcement applications is proposed. The high tensile steel wire takes care of the tensile strength requirement, whereas the interfacial friction between the backfill and the cement mortar takes care of adequate frictional capacity requirement. Both requirements can be independently controlled, enabling an optimum design of the composite reinforcement from both the considerations for a given situation. The paper presents the development of the technique, behavior and analysis of failure mechanisms of composite reinforcement from pullout test results. The results demonstrate that pullout failurem of the composite reinforcement, tensile failure of them steel wire and bond failure arising from the proportioning of cement mortar mix needs to be considered in the analysis.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Soils and Foundations
Publisher:	Japanese Geotechnical Society
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Japanese Geo technical Society
Keywords:	backfill;clay; pulling test;reinforced soil;sand;tensile strength.
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Civil Engineering
Date Deposited:	28 May 2009 11:07
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:54
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/16992

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