Reinforced pavement above trench under urban traffic load: case study and finite element (FE) analysis

• Main Authors: Kazemian, Sina, Barghchi, Maassoumeh, Prasad, Arun, Maydi, Hossein, Kim Huat, Bujang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Academic Journals 2010
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16480/1/16480.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16480/; http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/SRE/article-abstract/7926B7118744

Every year, 2000 km length of trench is being excavated through an existing pavement in Iran for installing urban waste water pipelines. Many a times, these trenches are not filled back properly resulting in large permanent settlement in the pavement constructed above the trench. Geogrids have been...