Abstract
The soil slopes alongside the roads, embankments etc. often lead to mishaps as they are prone to slide or collapse due to their instability. Soil nailing is remedial measure to such unstable soil slopes and thus to prevent such mishaps. In this research, a physical model of soil nailed slopes has been established and is tested for stress and strain with different flexible facing materials under the application of load using a hydraulic jack. Then the settlement and displacement of the soil nailed slopes with different facing materials is also calculated and compared. The several flexible facing materials used were HDPE Geomembrane Sheet, Geocomposite and Biaxial Geogrid and were compared with the soil slope without facing. This research shows that different flexible facing materials have different behaviour in terms of strain and displacement under the similar magnitude of load. And it is obtained that flexible facing materials can be a good replacement to rigid facing materials for non-critical structures and an economical and effective way to strengthen existing soil slopes and stabilize them with as they are less costly than the rigid materials. Among all flexible materials that used in this research Geocomposite has high strength of 1.23 N/mm2 and less vertical and horizontal displacement.
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