By T. Ingold
This ebook describes how bolstered earth works and the way it's used, and experiences the learn and improvement of bolstered earth partitions
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Sur prisingly this flimsy structure adequately supported the weight of a man. Again there is no record of a prototype construction. Although the two applications cited above are very embryonic they should not be discounted. Such possibilities have been brought to fruition in the United States of America where re inforced soil bridges, using principles similar to Vidal's, have been constructed with individual spans up to 15 m (Watkins, 1973). More common applications of Reinforced Earth are in the form of walls.
Once sand backfill is placed around the facing units and rein forcing strips the liner is removed, so leaving the facing units sup ported by the reinforcing strips embedded in the surrounding soil. To date there has been no record of any prototype arches or tunnels; however, it is obvious that such techniques would be limited to 'cut and cover' construction methods. Another intriguing model was that of a Reinforced Earth beam (Vidal, 1969b); this consisted of a cylinder of cartridge paper, ap proximately 50 mm in diameter, reinforced with a spiral of ordi34 APPLICATIONS FACING UNITS REINFORCING STRIPS FILL H / F '' 'SELECTED^ TILL: ; " • * '*' SsissiSsiSis 1 / f S —4> 0-8 H h Figure 23 Reinforced Earth wall nary transparent sealing tape.
Yamanouchi (1970) and Yang (loc. ) have also reported enhanced bearing characteristics resulting from the use of reinfor cement. Both of these investigators employed a single layer of con tinuous mesh reinforcement, with Yamanouchi investigating the reinforcing effects on soft clay and Yang the effect on sand. A single layer of reinforcement was also employed in an investigation carried out by Andrawes et al. (1978); however, this study investi gated the effects of reinforcement stiffness as well as roughness.