Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
Santiago, Chile
2020
RESUMEN
The soil gets involved in many particular problems found in the Civil Engineering, since the
ground must supports different kinds of structures (as buildings, bridges, towers, dams,
highways, etc.) or be used as building material, projecting embankments or stabilized walls
mechanically. Based on the above, many times the soil requires different kinds of
improvement or complement because it does not have the skills required by the geotechnical
design, therefore it becomes necessary to modify its geomechanics properties increase its
resistance and deformability. One of the many alternatives used to improve the mechanical
properties of the soil is using Geosynthetics materials, which are chosen depending on the
function or property that is required to develop or to improve.
The reason for this investigation is an experimental study that will analyze the particle
accommodation behavior in a given soil, considering the incorporation of two kinds of
Geosynthetics (woven geotextile and triaxial Geogrid) in the soil and evaluating different
configurations in the accommodation of these as also the application of impact and vibration
energies to obtain the particle arrangement doing a traditional laboratory test plan that
determines the degree of accommodation (modify proctor test and maximum and minimum
density test). Also, the determines of the bearing capacity through the CBR test.
Finally, the results obtained and the analysis performed show the inclusion of different kinds
of Geosynthetics do not generate a significant variation in the densification and the degree
of accommodation gets in the soil tested, leaving in evidence a similar data in DMCS to
those obtained in the tests without the Geosynthetics. Simultaneously, the inclusion of
different kinds of reinforcement gives an increase in the CBR index bearing capacity in a
variable magnitude of 15 and 4% for the geotextile and Geogrid respectively, both regarding
to the test without Geosynthetics; on the other hand, the investigation also gives an indirect
estimate of the variability of the main geomechanics properties in the sandy material,
identifying the resistance gives in the Geosynthetics configuration on the soil response,
these have not impacted the accommodation level and considering to the previous
comparisons an analysis of statistical variability of the dispersion in the experimental results.
It was possible to identify a band of magnitudes for the friction angle of the gravel sandy
material, also positives variations for the soil resistance to the equivalent penetration
increases the friction angle in 2 and 5 degrees for the geogrid and geotextile, respectively.