Geosynthetic and Reinforced Soil Structures
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The official GTU curriculum for Geosynthetic and Reinforced Soil Structures (subject code ME03033021) as prescribed for C(RE · Semester 3 divides the course into 4 units, covering 30 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (ME03033021)Unit 1 Historical background of reinforced soil, Introduction to Geosynthetic,
- Types of Geosynthetics
- their applications and manufacturing methods
- Strength of reinforced soils
- Testing of Geosynthetics: Various properties of Geosynthetics
- hydraulic and endurance properties
- Different Types of Soil Retaining Structures
- Construction Aspects of Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil Retaining Walls like wrap-around walls
- full-height panel walls and discrete-facing panel walls
- modular block walls Design Codes and methods for Reinforced Soil Retaining Walls
Unit 2 Slope stability analysis
- Planar wedge method and bilinear wedge analysis
- External Stability Analysis of Reinforced Soil Retaining Walls
- Internal Stability Analysis of Reinforced Soil Walls
- Testing Requirements for Reinforced Soil Retaining Walls
- Design of Reinforced soil Retaining walls - simple geometry
- Design of reinforced soil retaining walls supporting sloped backfill soil
- Design of reinforced soil retaining walls supporting a bridge abutment
- Stability analysis of soil slopes- Infinite slopes
- Stability analysis of reinforced soil slopes resting on soft and strong foundation soil
Unit 3 Applications of Geosynthetics
- Reinforced soil for supporting shallow foundations
- Binquet and Lee's approach for analysis of foundations with reinforcement layers
- Accelerated consolidation of soft clays using Geosynthetics
- Analysis and Design methods for encased stone columns
- Drainage and filtration: Different filtration requirements
- filtration in different types of soils and criteria for selection of geotextiles
Unit 4 Erosion control using Geosynthetics, Natural Geosynthetics and their
- Geosynthetics for construction of municipal and hazardous waste landfill
- Landfills application: Different components of modern landfills
- collection techniques for Leachate
- Application of different Geosynthetics for drainage in landfills
- use of geomembranes and Geosynthetic
- Clay Liner (GCL) as barriers
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