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Geosynthetic Reinforcement for Soft Foundations: Brazilian Perspectives
Brazil has large regions of its territory covered with soft soil deposits. Some of these deposits can be over 40m deep with very low shear strength. These types of situations pose important challenges for designers and contractors in civil engineering works. In this context geosynthetics can be effectively employed as reinforcement and its use has increased markedly in the last decades in the country. The same applies to the use of prefabricated vertical drains for the acceleration of soft soil consolidation. This paper presents the Brazilian perspectives on the use of geosynthetics in such applications. A case-history is also presented and discussed.
Geosynthetic Reinforcement for Soft Foundations: Brazilian Perspectives
Brazil has large regions of its territory covered with soft soil deposits. Some of these deposits can be over 40m deep with very low shear strength. These types of situations pose important challenges for designers and contractors in civil engineering works. In this context geosynthetics can be effectively employed as reinforcement and its use has increased markedly in the last decades in the country. The same applies to the use of prefabricated vertical drains for the acceleration of soft soil consolidation. This paper presents the Brazilian perspectives on the use of geosynthetics in such applications. A case-history is also presented and discussed.
Geosynthetic Reinforcement for Soft Foundations: Brazilian Perspectives
Palmeira, E. M. (author)
Geo-Frontiers Congress 2005 ; 2005 ; Austin, Texas, United States
2005-10-09
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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