What is Reinforced Soil? State it’s advantages and disadvantages?
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What is Reinforced Soil? State it’s advantages and disadvantages?
aviratdhodare
Reinforced earth is a technique to retain earth in fills where the end walls in panels are retained through the friction created by the reinforcement in various layers upto height of 5 metres in the embankment approaches of flyovers and other similar places.
Preet Chovatiya
Reinforced soil is a combination of the compacted soil with tensile reinforcement to creat earth structure.
Advantage of reinforced soil:-
1. On soft ground the construction will be done directly.
2. Earth filling quantity needed is smaller.
3. The land take required is reduce by steeper embarkment slopes.
Disadvantage of reinforced soil:-
1. Issue of durability and long time performance of reinforcing material.
2. Under the UV rays polymeric materials are degrade and it can be damaged by rough handling on site.
Komal Bhandakkar
Reinforced soil:
Thank You.