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Doctorate study Basal Reinforced Piled Embankments
Suzanne van Eekelen receives received her PhD on basal reinforced piled embankments on 1 July 2015.
- Her PhD thesis: S.J.M. van Eekelen, Basal Reinforced Piled Embankments (ISBN 978-94-6203-825-7).
- Suzanne van Eekelen developed a design method for the geosynthetic reinforcement in the piled embankment. This model is available in excel: click here: Excel file with Concentric Arches model.
For the doctorate, the Deltares laboratory carried out a series of experiments, reported in Van Eekelen et al., 2012a. Based on this, Van Eekelen developed the new Concentric Arches - design model for the basal reinforcement of the piled embankment (Van Eekelen et al., 2012b, Van Eekelen et al., 2013).This This model was validated with measurements from seven full-scale projects and four series of scaled model experiments (Van Eekelen et al., 2015). The calculated results are almost a perfect match with the measured results.
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The results of the doctorate study are reported in the doctorate dissertation of Van Eekelen (2015), click here to order a free paper version) and study were adopted in the 2015 update of the Dutch Design Guideline for Basal Reinforced Piled Embankments (CUR226:2015, in Dutch, downloadable after the summer of 2015 at www.sbrcurnet.nl).
What is a piled embankment?
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Why are piled embankments applied?
A basal reinforced piled embankment can be used for the construction of a road or a railway when a traditional construction method would require too much construction time, affect vulnerable objects nearby or give too much residual settlement, making frequent maintenance necessary.
Example projects
Please find a list of Dutch piled embankment projects here.
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