An insight on the response of foundations resting on sand with geosynthetic materials as a reinforcement

Abstract

Application of Geosynthetic to resolve several geotechnical engineering problems is widely accepted and effective methods. It improved the foundation’s bearing ability as well as minimizes the settlements associate to footings resting on weak soils. Their use is not only restricted to footings in fact they are widely used in improving the subgrade performance of the pavement sand for slope stabilizations. Over the past few decades numerous researchers have contributed their valuable results based on laboratory tests or numerical investigations. The present study aims to provide a detailed literature survey of research work associated with soil reinforcements together under a common hood which can help the upcoming researchers to understand the work done in this field simply and effectively. It also aims to highlight the effect of depth of geosynthetics, their respective width, relative density of sand or other geo-parameters and layers’ number provided with geosynthetic affect the bearing capability and settlement behavior of reinforced and unreinforced soil structures.