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Agenda piled embankment - related activities Deltares and her partners
16:15: Three paper presentations at ECSMGE24 in Lisbon, Portugal:
- 3D small-scale tests on steel-reinforced piled embankments (paper 80); Suzanne J.M. van Eekelen, M. Schneider, B. Wittekoek, M. Hell, P. Pandrea, P. Schauber, M. Topolnicki, K. Makowska, K. Zdanowicz, R. Sieńko, H. Zachert
- Large-scale test on basal steel-reinforced piled embankments (paper 406); Marc Schneider, M. Hell, P. Pandrea, B. Wittekoek, S.J.M. van Eekelen, M. Topolnicki, K. Makowska, R. Sieńko, H. Zachert
- Groundwater in geosynthetics-reinforced pile-supported embankments, 3D Experiments (Paper 81); Suzanne J.M. van Eekelen, B. Wittekoek, R.A. Zwaan, A. Bezuijen, A. Nancey
9:00-10:00: State-of-Art Lecture, Suzanne van Eekelen at ECSMGE24: Basal-reinforced pile-supported embankments, dealing with risks and safety (paper 1074)
Invited lecture to be announced later
to ECPMG 2024 in Delft, Netherlands: several lectures on physical modelling research on piled embankments
to Two-day course on basal-reinforced pile-supported embankments in Delft, Netherlands, organized by PAO Techniek and Management
to ACPMG 2024 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: a themed lecture on physical modelling of basal-reinforced pile-supported embankments (Paper 3)
More than 20 years of research on piled embankments at Deltares
Deltares has been conducting research on pile embankments for over 20 years. Please find papers at Google Scholar or the Deltares knowledge platform.
The results significantly contributed to the development of the Concentric Arches model, which was adopted in:
Design Guideline Basal Reinforced Piled Embankments
The Design Guideline Basal Reinforced Piled Embankments can be purchased at Taylor&Francis Group/CRCPress or Amazon. This paper provides a summary and this excel file gives the main equations. The guideline:
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Prof. Richard Bathurst has written a review of our design guideline. You can read it here, with free access on the Geosynthetics International website.
Doctorate study Basal Reinforced Piled Embankments
Suzanne van Eekelen received her PhD on basal reinforced piled embankments on 1 July 2015.
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The results of the doctorate study were adopted in the 2016 update of the CUR226 Dutch Design Guideline for Basal Reinforced Piled Embankments.
What is a piled embankment?
A piled embankment consists of a foundation on piles, with on top of that an embankment. The bottom section of the embankment is composed of a granular material and reinforced with one or more geosynthetic layers. The embankment can be raised with sand or granular material. The piled embankment is finished with a road or a railroad construction.
Within the granular layer, a kind of arch occurs. The load is transferred along these arches. This phenomenon is called arching.
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
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The Dutch version of Piled EmbankmentEmbankments: PaalmatrassystemenPaalmatrassen.