Scribd
Upload
88 views1 page

xCE741 Reinforced Earth and Geotextiles

Uploaded by

Satyaprakash Prasad

This document provides an outline for a course on reinforced earth and geotextiles. The course objectives are to provide knowledge on earth reinforcing methodologies and the use of geotextiles. The course covers topics like the basic elements of ground engineering, characteristics of reinforcing materials, definition and advantages of reinforced earth, soil reinforcement interaction, behavior of reinforced earth walls, design of reinforced earth walls and geotextiles, field applications, testing of reinforcements and geotextiles, and applications of geomembranes. The expected outcome is that students will be able to design and use geotextiles as an earth reinforcing material.

Copyright:

© All Rights Reserved
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
Download as docx, pdf, or txt

xCE741 Reinforced Earth and Geotextiles

Uploaded by

Satyaprakash Prasad
88 views1 page
This document provides an outline for a course on reinforced earth and geotextiles. The course objectives are to provide knowledge on earth reinforcing methodologies and the use of geotextiles. The course covers topics like the basic elements of ground engineering, characteristics of reinforcing materials, definition and advantages of reinforced earth, soil reinforcement interaction, behavior of reinforced earth walls, design of reinforced earth walls and geotextiles, field applications, testing of reinforcements and geotextiles, and applications of geomembranes. The expected outcome is that students will be able to design and use geotextiles as an earth reinforcing material.

Original Description:

syllable

Original Title

xCE741

Copyright

© © All Rights Reserved

Available Formats

DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

This document provides an outline for a course on reinforced earth and geotextiles. The course objectives are to provide knowledge on earth reinforcing methodologies and the use of geotextiles. The course covers topics like the basic elements of ground engineering, characteristics of reinforcing materials, definition and advantages of reinforced earth, soil reinforcement interaction, behavior of reinforced earth walls, design of reinforced earth walls and geotextiles, field applications, testing of reinforcements and geotextiles, and applications of geomembranes. The expected outcome is that students will be able to design and use geotextiles as an earth reinforcing material.

Copyright:

© All Rights Reserved
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
Download as docx, pdf, or txt
88 views1 page

xCE741 Reinforced Earth and Geotextiles

Uploaded by

Satyaprakash Prasad
This document provides an outline for a course on reinforced earth and geotextiles. The course objectives are to provide knowledge on earth reinforcing methodologies and the use of geotextiles. The course covers topics like the basic elements of ground engineering, characteristics of reinforcing materials, definition and advantages of reinforced earth, soil reinforcement interaction, behavior of reinforced earth walls, design of reinforced earth walls and geotextiles, field applications, testing of reinforcements and geotextiles, and applications of geomembranes. The expected outcome is that students will be able to design and use geotextiles as an earth reinforcing material.

Copyright:

© All Rights Reserved
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
Download as docx, pdf, or txt
You are on page 1/ 1

xCE741 Reinforced Earth and Geotextiles

L-T-P-CR: 3-0-0-3
PREREQUISITE: The student should have attended course of soil mechanics.
OBJECTIVE: To provide knowledge of earth reinforcing methodologies and the use of geotextiles
and their behaviour.
EXPECTED OUTCOME: The student should be able to design and use geotextiles as an earth
reinforcing material.

Detailed Course Outline


Theory:
1. Basic introduction to the elements of Ground Engineering, characteristics of reinforcing
materials. 6 Lectures
2. Definition of reinforced and advantage of Reinforced Earth. 5 Lectures
3. Soil reinforcement interaction. 5 Lectures
4. Behaviour of Reinforced earth walls. 4 Lectures
5. Basis of wall design, the Coulomb force method, the Rankine force methods, internal and
external stability condition. 4 Lectures
6. Field application of RE, randomly reinforced earth and analysis of reinforced soils, testing of
soil reinforcements. 5 Lectures
7. Definitions, functions, properties, and application of Geotextiles, design of Geotextile.
5 Lectures
8. Definitions, functions, properties, design and applications of geomembrane 4 Lectures
9. Applications, Geotextiles associated with geomembrane. 2 Lectures
10. Testing on geotextiles, environmental efforts, ageing and weathering. 2 Lectures
Texts/References Books
1. International Conference on Soil Reinforcement, RE and other techniques,
Paris, March, 1979.
2. Second International Conference on Geotextiles, Las Vegas, August, 1982.
3. International Conferences in-situ soil and rock reinforcement, Paris, October,
1984.

You might also like