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Design Guideline Basal Reinforced Piled Embankments
The new Design Guideline Basal Reinforced Piled Embankments can be purchased at Taylor&Francis Group/CRCPress, Amazon or Bol.com. The e-books will be available on these websites shortly.The Key features of the book:
- Offering the most reliable and complete guideline available for the design of basal reinforced piled embankments
- Featuring the most up-to-date insights in the behaviour of basal reinforced piled embankments, including the Concentric Arches model
- Extensive calculation examples are included
- Providing construction details and many practical tips
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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 arches. This phenomenon is called arching.
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