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Steepening of slopes for construction of rail/road embankments or for widening of other civil engineering structures is a necessity for development. Use of geosynthetics for steep slope construction or repair of failed slopes considering all aspects of design and environment could be a viable alternative to these problems. Designing geosynthetic reinforced slope with minimum length of geosynthetics leads to economy. 1.5H:1 V slope reinforced with a single layer has been analysed for three different sets of soil parameters and for three depths from the top of the embankment. Reinforcement length has been optimized from face and non-face ends of the slope. The paper presents the effect of soil parameters, angle of shearing resistance and cohesion on optimized length of reinforcement and saving in length of reinforcement.
The effect of adhesion between soil and reinforcement on slope stability has also been presented.
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Jha, A.K., Madhira, M., Reddy, G.V.N. (2022). Slope–Reinforcement Interactions: Effect of Strength Parameters. In: Satyanarayana Reddy, C.N.V., Saride, S., Krishna, A.M. (eds) Ground Improvement and Reinforced Soil Structures. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 152. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1831-4_49
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