Geosynthetic products have been used for soil reinforcements purposes for the past couple of decades. The Civil Engineering industry, more specifically the transportation and geotechnical engineering sectors, have experienced ...

Drainage under unsaturated soil conditions has always been a challenge for many civil engineering applications where removal of this extra moisture would improve the performance of the system. The suction in the small pores ...

Lateral restraint is the primary mechanism associated with geosynthetic-stabilized road bases. Under traffic loading, the unbound aggregates tend to displace laterally unless they are restrained by the subgrade or by ...

The use of geosynthetics as reinforcement for the base layer of flexible pavement systems has grown steadily over the past thirty years. In spite of the evidence that geosynthetic reinforcements can lead to improved pavement ...

Sliding failures of landfill cover systems are common, and the slip surface is often at the interface between a geosynthetic drainage layer and an underlying textured geomembrane. In an effort to understand the sliding ...

Inclusion of geosynthetics within hot-mix asphalt (HMA) layers has been reported to be an effective technique to enhance the performance of pavements. The main benefits expected from geosynthetic reinforcement of HMA layers ...

For the past three decades, geosynthetics have been recognized as materials that can significantly improve the performance of pavements on weak subgrade. Pavements exhibit non-linear elasto-plastic behavior. The addition ...

Expansive clay subgrades have been reported as one of the major sources for damages to roadways in central and east Texas. The frequent and predominant form of damage to roadways over expansive clay subgrades includes ...

The increasing use of different types of geosynthetics in the design of reinforced soil retaining structures and of stiffened roadways require proper evaluation of the mobilization of load-transfer mechanisms between soil ...

Stabilization of base aggregate using geosynthetics may provide improved performance in flexible pavements. Through the aggregate-geosynthetic interaction, the induced shear stress in the base aggregates is transferred to ...