Stabilisation of granular media and formation soil using geosynthetics with special reference to railway engineering

Ground Improvement

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 27-43

  Indraratna, B ^a   Shahin, M A ^a   Salim, W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b RailCorp   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geosynthetics; Prefabricated vertical drains (FVDs); Rail track; Soil stabilisation

Indexed keywords

BALLAST (RAILROAD TRACK); CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CYCLIC LOADS; DETERIORATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOSYNTHETIC MATERIALS; MAINTENANCE; RAILROAD TRACKS;

FORMATION SOIL; PREFABRICATED VERTICAL DRAINS (FVD); RAIL BALLAST; SOIL STABILIZATION;

SOIL MECHANICS;

CONSOLIDATION; GEOSYNTHETICS; GRANULAR MEDIUM; RAILWAY; RESILIENCE; SOFT SOIL; SOIL REINFORCEMENT; SOIL STABILIZATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 33847653324     PISSN: 1365781X     EISSN: 17517621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/grim.2007.11.1.27     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. ASHPIZ E. S., DIEDERICH R. and KOSLOWSKI C. (2002) The use of spunbonded geotextile in railway track renewal on the St Petersburg-Moscow line, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Geosynthetics, Nice, 14-19.
2. BERGADO D. T., ASAKAMI H., ALFARO M. C. and BALASUBRAMANIAM A. S. (1991) A smear effect of vertical drains on soft Bangkok clay. Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE, 117, No. 10, 1509-1530.
3. CHARLES J. A. and WATTS K. S. (1980) The influence of confining pressure on the shear strength of compacted rockfill. Géotechnique, 30, No. 4, 353-367.
4. HARDIN B. O. (1985) Crushing of soil particles. Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE, 111, No. 10, 1177-1192.
5. HAZEN A. (1930) Water supply. In American Civil Engineers' Handbook (ed. MERRIMAN T.) John Wiley, New York.
6. HOLTZ R. D., SHANG J. Q. and BERGADO D. T. (2001) Soil improvement. In Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Handbook, (ed. R. KERRY ROWE) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, pp. 429-462.
7. INDRARATNA B. and BAMUNAWITA C. (2002) Soft clay stabilization by mandrel driven geosynthetic vertical drains. Australian Geomechanics, 37, No. 5, 57-86.
8. INDRARATNA B. and REDANA I. W. (1999) Settlement prediction of embankments stabilised with prefabricated vertical drains at 2nd Bangkok International Airport. Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Amsterdam, 1505-1511.
9. INDRARATNA B. and REDANA I. W. (2000) Numerical modeling of vertical drains with smear and well resistance installed in soft clay. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 37, No. 1, 132-145.
10. INDRARATNA B. and SALIM W. (2002) Modeling of particle breakage of coarse aggregates incorporating strength and dilatancy. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Geotechnical Engineering, 155, No. 4, 243-252.
11. INDRARATNA B. and SALIM W. (2003) Deformation and degradation mechanics of recycled ballast stabilised with geosynthetics. Soils and Foundations, 43, No. 4, 35-46.
12. INDRARATNA B., WIJEWARDENA L. S. S. and BALASUBRAMANIAM A. S. (1993) Large-scale testing of greywake rockfill. Géotechnique, 43, No. 1, 37-51.
13. INDRARATNA B., IONESCU D. and CHRISTIE D. (1998) Shear behaviour of railway ballast based on large-scale triaxial tests. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, 124, No. 5, 439-449.
14. IKDRARATNA B., IOKESCU D. and CHRISTIE D. (2000) State-of-the-art large scale testing of ballast. Proceedings of CORE 2000, Railway Technology for the 21st Century, Adelaide, pp. 24·1-24·13.
15. INDRARATNA B., SALIM W., IONESCU D. and CHRISTIE D. (2001) Stress-strain and degradation behaviour of railway ballast under static and dynamic loading, based on large-scale triaxial testing, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Istanbul, pp. 2093-2096.
16. INDRARATNA B., SALIM W. and CHRISTIE D. (2002) Improvement of recycled ballast using geosynthetics. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Geosynthetics, Nice, 20-29.
17. INDRARATNA B., KHABBAZ H., SALIM W. and CHRISTIE D. (2003) Geotechnical characteristics of railway ballast and the role of geosynthetics in minimising ballast degradation and track deformation. Proceedings of RAILTECH 2003: Railway Technology in the. New Millennium, Kuala Lumpur, pp. 1-22.
18. INDRARATNA B., KHABBAZ H., SALIM W., LACKENBY J. and CHRISTIE D. (2004) Ballast characteristics and the effects of geosynthetics on rail track deformation. Proceedings of the International Conference, on Geosynthetics and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ICGGE, Bombay, pp. 3-12.
19. INDRARATNA B., LACKENBY J. and CHRISTIE D. (2005) Effect of confining pressure on the degradation of ballast under cyclic loading. Géotechnique, 55, No. 4, 325-328.
20. JANARDHANAM R. and DESAI C. S. (1983) Three dimensional testing and modeling of ballast. Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE, 109, No. 6, 783-797.
21. JEFFS T. and MARICH S. (1987) Ballast characteristics in the laboratory. Proceedings of the Conference on Railway Engineering, Perth, pp. 141-147.
22. LADE P. V., YAMAMURO J. A. and BOPP P. A. (1996) Significance of particle crushing in granular materials. Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE, 122, No. 4, 309-316.
23. LEE K. L. and FARHOOMAND I. (1967) Compressibility and crushing of granular soil in anisotropic triaxial compression. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 4, No. 1, 68-86.
24. LESLIE D. D. (1975) Shear strength of rockfill. South Pacific Division Corps of Engineering Laboratory, California, Physical Properties of Engineering Study No. 526.
25. MARACHI N. D., CHAN C. K. and SEED H. B. (1972) Evaluation of properties of rockfill materials. Journal of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineers Division, ASCE, 98, No. 1, 95-114
26. MARSAL R. J. (1967) Large scale testing of rockfill materials. Journal of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, ASCE, 93, No. SM2, 27-43.
27. MARSAL R. J. (1973) Mechanical properties of rockfill. In Embankment Dam Engineering. John Wiley, New York
28. MIURA N. and O'HARA S. (1979) Particle crushing of decomposed granite soil under shear stresses. Soils and Foundations, 19, No. 3, 1-14.
29. NAKATA Y., HYDE A. F. L., HYODO M. and MURATA H. (1999) A probabilistic approach to sand particle crushing in the triaxial test. Géotechnique, 49, No. 5, 567-583.
30. NEIDHART T. (2001) True-to-scale in situ tests determining dynamic performance of earthworks under high speed train loading. Proceedings of Geotechnics for Roads, Rail Tracks and Earth Structures, ISSMGE, Rotterdam, Vol. ETCH, pp. 213-223.
31. PLAXIS B. V. (2004) PLAXIS 2D Version 8-2: Finite Element Code for Soil and Rock Analysis. A. A. Balkema, Delft.
32. RAMAMURTHY T. (2001) Shear strength response of some geological materials in triaxial compression. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 38, No. 5, 683-697.
33. RAYMOND G. P. (1985) Research on railroad ballast specification and evaluation. Track Design and Construction: Transportation Research Record, 1006, 1-8.
34. RAYMOND G. P. (1999) Railway rehabilitation geotextiles. Journal of Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 17, No. 4, 213-230.
35. RAYMOND G. P. (2002) Reinforced ballast behaviour subjected to repeated load. Journal of Geotextiles and Geomembranes, 20, No. 1, 39-61.
36. ROWE P. K. and JONES C. J. F. P. (2000) Geosynthetics: innovative materials and rational design, Proceedings of GEOENG 2000, Melbourne, 1, 1124-1156.
37. SALIM W. (2004) Deformation and Degradation Aspects of Ballast and the Role of Geosynthetics in Track Stabilisation. PhD thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wollongong, Australia.
38. SALIM W. and INDRARATNA B. (2004) A new elasto-plastic constitutive model for granular aggregates incorporating particle breakage. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 41, No. 4, 657-671.
39. SELIG E. T. and WATERS J. M. (1994) Track Geotechnology and Substructure Management. Thomas Telford, London.
40. STANDARDS AUSTRALIA (1996) Aggregates and Rock for Engineering Purposes. Part 7: Railway Ballast. Standards Australia, Sydney, AS 27587.