Second international Course on Basal Reinforced Piled Embankments on 28-29 November 2017
I am pleased to inform you that we are organizing a second international course on Basal Reinforced Piled Embankments on 28 and 29 November 2017.
Please find more information and a registration form here.
Agenda for Piled Embankment - Related Activities by Deltares and Partners
16:15 session D2: 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-the-Art Lecture by Suzanne van Eekelen at ECSMGE24: Basal-reinforced pile-supported embankments, dealing with risks and safety (paper 1074, co-authors Piet G. van Duijnen and Timo Schweckendiek)
Invited lecture to be announced later, in-person and online
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. You can find our papers at Google Scholar or the Deltares knowledge platform.
The results significantly contributed to the development of the Concentric Arches (CA) model, which was adopted in the Design Guideline Basal Reinforced Piled Embankments.
Currently, Deltares is involved in research on for example:
- 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.
- 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.
Interested in a collaboration?
- 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.
- Deltares frequently opens the doors of its experimental facilities to support innovative initiatives from Dutch start-ups and SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises), enhancing interaction with these businesses. With the SME challenge, Deltares is offering free access to the Hydro and Geo facilities and laboratories to test design concepts of innovations. A second 2024 round will be done in the autumn of 2024, and registration is already possible.
- Any other ideas to collaborate? Contact Suzanne van Eekelen.
Design Guideline Design Guideline Basal Reinforced Piled Embankments
The new Design Guideline Basal Reinforced Piled EmbankmentsEmbankments can be purchased at Taylor&Francis Group/CRCPress, or Amazonor Bol.com.
This paper provides a summary and this free and open Excel file contains the main equations. The guideline:
- Offering Offers the most reliable and complete comprehensive guideline available for the design of basal of basal reinforced piled embankments
- Featuring Features the most up-to-date insights in the behaviour of basal reinforced piled reinforced piled embankments, including the Concentric Arches model
- Extensive calculation examples are included
- Includes extensive calculation examples
- Provides Providing construction details and many practical tips
Prof. Richard Bathurst has written a review of our of our design guideline. You can read it here, with free access , 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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For the doctorate, the Deltares laboratory carried out conducted a series of experiments, reported in 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 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 closely match with the measured results. Suzanne van Eekelen received several awards for her work on basal-reinforced piled embankments.
The Concentric Arches model. The loads are transported along the hemispheres and the 2D arches, towards the piles, the geosynthetic reinforcement and the subsoil. This model is available in excel: excel file with Concentric Arches model.
The results of the doctorate study were adopted in the 2016 update of the CUR226 Dutch Design Guideline for Basal Reinforced Piled Embankments.
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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 archesthe 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
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pile-supported embankment can be used for the construction of a road
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, 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.
Example projects
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The Dutch version of Piled EmbankmentEmbankments: PaalmatrassystemenPaalmatrassen.
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