Geosynthetics and Reinforced Earth
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The official GTU curriculum for Geosynthetics and Reinforced Earth (subject code ME01076061) as prescribed for GE · Semester 1 divides the course into 5 units, covering 31 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 (ME01076061)Unit 1 Introduction
- Historical background of reinforced soil
- Principles of reinforced soil through Mohr circle analysis
Unit 2 Different types of geosynthetics and its Testing
- Types of geosynthetics like geotextiles
- geocomposites and geomambrane
- their manufacturing methods
- Various properties of geosynthetics
- physical properties
- mechanical properties
- hydraulic properties & endurance properties
- Extrapolation of long term strength properties from short term tests
Unit 3 Reinforced Soil retaining walls
- Different types of walls like wrap-around walls
- full-height panel walls and discrete-facing panel walls
- modular block walls Design methods for RE wall
- Construction methods for reinforced soil retaining walls
Unit 4 Reinforced soil slopes
- Basal reinforcement for construction on soft clay soils
- construction of steep slopes with reinforcement layers on competent soils
- Different slope stability analysis methods like planar wedge method
- bi-linear wedge method and circular slip methods
- Erosion control on slopes using geosynthetics
Unit 5 Various Civil Engg Applications of Geosynthetics/Case-Studies
- For Foundations: Binquet and Lee's approach for analysis of foundations with reinforcement layers
- Drainage and filtration: Different filtration requirements
- filtration in different types of soils and criteria for selection of geotextiles
- estimation of flow of water in retaining walls
- etc. and selection of geosynthetics
- Pavement application: Mechanism and concept of pavement
- Design of unpaved roads
- Design by Giroud- Noiray approach Landfills application: Different components of modern landfills
- collection techniques for leachate
- application of different geosynthetics like geonets
- geotextiles for drainage in landfills
- use of geomembranes and Geosynthetic Clay Liner (GCL) as barriers
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