When constructing highways on soft soil foundation, the foundation treatment method of replacing the
soft soil layer with sand and gravel is prone to settlement deformation, and the investment is large and
the construction period is long. The use of GeoGro's geocells to treat the foundation not only improves
the
bearing performance of the road surface, but also It can greatly reduce the labor intensity, reduce the
thickness of the roadbed and reduce the cost.
1)Dealing with bridgehead jumping
One of the common problems of highways is the bridgehead jumping. The principle of geocells to control
bridgehead jumping is to establish a transition section between the concrete bridge and the high-fill
subgrade, and use the geocell to limit the lateral displacement of the filling material to form a
semi-rigid The interval between the plates and multi-layer plates varies with the soil mass, and the
interval is generally 1 m~2 m. The confinement effect of GeoGro's geocell can minimize
post-construction settlement.
2)GeoGro's geocell slope protection
GeoGro's geocells can control erosion, and the most applications are slope protection, dams, retaining
walls,
breakwaters, etc. Its principle is to increase the flow capacity, reduce the erosion of the furrow,
prevent the accumulation of water pressure, and eliminate the concentrated erosion. The honeycomb
restricting structure can fix the filling material, restrict the water pressure acting on it, thereby
improving the flow capacity. The honeycomb wall allows normal drainage, but controls the flow rate in
the nest. Like thousands of mini-dams, the concentrated water flow is dispersed into a uniform, soothing
thin layer of water flow.
Precautions for GeoGro's geocells during highway
construction:
(1) Under the same load and stress level, there is not much difference in the deformation modulus of the
top surface of the reinforced cushion with different height cells and different reinforced materials.
The top deformation modulus is of little significance. However, the use of GeoGro geocell reinforced structures
can effectively reduce the earth pressure on the top surface of the soft soil of the foundation, and has
a good spreading stress ability.
(2) When the height of the GeoGro geocell sheet is small, the soil pressure on the top surface of the soft 10
gradually decreases with the increase of the height of the cell sheet; when the cell sheet reaches a
certain height (20cm) As the height of the cell sheet continues to increase, the earth pressure on the
top surface of the soft soil increases instead.
(3) The use of well-graded coarse particles (good-graded gravel) as the filler in the cell can more
effectively improve the overall anti-deformation ability of the entire GeoGro geocell reinforced cushion
compared to fine particles f medium sand. The denser the cell cushion filler, the greater the
deformation modulus and the smaller the elongation of the H filler itself, the smaller the deformation
of the cell sheet under the same stress level, and the higher the degree of foundation bearing capacity
can be improved.
(4) On-site settlement observation data show that the use of soil 1 two-cell reinforced foundation can
more effectively reduce the settlement of the entire foundation and improve uneven settlement than the
use of geogrid-reinforced foundation, and soil GeoGro geocell reinforced cushion It can effectively improve the
bearing capacity of the foundation and has a good effect. However, the most human vertical displacement
at the bottom of the geocell reinforced embankment is reduced by 11.0% compared to the embankment
reinforced by the soil grid. This is somewhat lower than the finite element calculation that can be
reduced by about 20.0%. gap.