Babu, Sivakumar GL and Kumar, Pawan (2012) AN APPROACH FOR EVALUATION OF USE OF GEOCELLS IN FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS. In: Indian Geotechnical Conference, December 13-15, 2012, Delhi, India, pp. 159-168.
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Abstract
The design methodology for flexible pavements needs to address the mechanisms of pavement failure, loading intensities and also develop suitable approaches for evaluation of pavement performance. In the recent years, the use of geocells to improve pavement performance has been receiving considerable attention. This paper studies the influence of geocells on the required thickness of pavements by placing it below the granular layers (base and sub-base) and above the subgrade. The reduction in thickness here refers to the reduction in the thickness of the GSB (Granular Sub-base) layer, with a possibility of altogether getting rid of it. To facilitate the analysis, a simple linear elastic approach is used, considering six of the sections as given in the Indian Roads Congress (IRC) code. All the analysis was done using the pavement analysis package KENPAVE. The results show that the use of geocells enables a reduction in pavement thickness.
| Item Type: | Conference Proceedings |
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| Publication: | Journal of the Indian Roads Congress |
| Publisher: | Indian Geotechnical Society |
| Additional Information: | Copyright for this article belongs to the Indian Geotechnical Society |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Civil Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jun 2014 11:52 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jun 2014 11:52 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/49273 |
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