Open AccessEffect of Geocell on the behaviour of Soil
Author(s) -
Dharmesh Lal,
Keshava Prasanna,
K. Rohith Rao,
Prithhe Kamalekkar,
J. Bajrang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/998/1/012024
Subject(s) - reinforcement , plastic bottle , bottle , geotechnical engineering , soil water , environmental science , water bottle , materials science , composite material , geology , soil science
As the use of plastic has rapidly increased in past few years, attempts are made to use it as reinforcement material to escalate the soil properties. For the present study, plastic bottles are cut and made into geocell to use it as the reinforcement to the soil. Use of plastic as reinforcement has great advantages, as it is low cost and easily available. Results of plate load tests on soil and plastic bottle reinforced soil are presented and compared. Finally, it is observed that plastic bottle reinforced soil provides improved performance when compared to that of unreinforced one. An improvement of 1.86 times the plain sand is attained when plastic bottle reinforcement was used.