Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Date
02 Jun 1993, 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Abstract
In Malaysia, an increasing need has developed for various types of construction on sites underlain by soft cohesive soil. The use of vertical drains in conjunction with preloading is one of widely used methods to improve the geotechnical properties of the soft soil. This is due to its relatively cheap cost and availability of drains as well as the practical ease of application. This paper presents a number of high quality case studies which had been carried out to study the effectiveness of the vertical drains. The results of the studies are presented and discussed. The performance as well as the effectiveness of the soil improvement method are evaluated.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
3rd Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1993 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Ali, F. Haji and Huat, B. Kim, "Performance of Prefabricated Vertical Drains in Improvement of Malaysian Soft Marine Clay" (1993). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 24.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/3icchge/3icchge-session07/24
Performance of Prefabricated Vertical Drains in Improvement of Malaysian Soft Marine Clay
St. Louis, Missouri
In Malaysia, an increasing need has developed for various types of construction on sites underlain by soft cohesive soil. The use of vertical drains in conjunction with preloading is one of widely used methods to improve the geotechnical properties of the soft soil. This is due to its relatively cheap cost and availability of drains as well as the practical ease of application. This paper presents a number of high quality case studies which had been carried out to study the effectiveness of the vertical drains. The results of the studies are presented and discussed. The performance as well as the effectiveness of the soil improvement method are evaluated.
