Agenda for Piled Embankment - Related Activities by Deltares and Partners
16:15: Three paper presentations at ECSMGE24 in Lisbon, Portugal:
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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. You can find our papers at Google Scholar or the Deltares knowledge platform.
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- Piled Embankments with Basal Steel Reinforcement (PEBSTER), with partners TU Darmstadt, Institute of Geotechnics, Keller, and SHM Systems. PEBSTER is a GEOLAB transnational project and a TKI project.
- Currently, we are working on a new research project with a large test set-up and a simulation of train passages. Interested to join our research consortium? Contact us. We expect a financial contribution.
- Groundwater in geotextile embankments, with partner Solmax-TenCate. This is a TKI project, funded by a TKI-PPS funding of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs.
Design Guideline Basal Reinforced Piled Embankments
The Design Guideline Basal Reinforced Piled Embankments can be purchased at Taylor&Francis Group/CRCPress or Amazon.
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Prof. Richard Bathurst has written a review of our design guideline, which you can for free 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.
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Within the granular layer, the load is transferred towards the stiffer, less-moving elements. As a result, the load follows paths that are more or less arch-shaped. This phenomenon is called soil arching.
Why are piled embankments applied?
A basal-reinforced pile-supported embankment can be used for the construction of a road, railway or an industrial area 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.
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