Location
Chicago, Illinois
Date
02 May 2013, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Abstract
Coir geotextiles (Coir Bhoovastra) is one of the non-traditional highly demanded and promising coir product with multi usages as eco-friendly, sustainable and substitutable product for many Civil Engineering applications especially in Geotechnical Engineering. Coir Geo-textiles is an emerging area of coir industry. Kerala, the major coir producing state in India is fast growing in the development and application of Coir Geotextile. Coir Geotextile development program is also intended to popularize the coir products as geotextile material in National & International level and to provide internationally accepted standardization for coir geotextile. The use of Coir geotextile is well established in areas of erosion control, blanket drains and as vertical drains. As the synthetic geotextile are non-biodegradable, the natural geosynthetics, especially coir geotextile are increasingly preferred. Experimental studies have proved that while cotton and jute degrade within six months, coir geotextile provide good support on slopes for about 5 years. It is resistant to saline water. Its greatest advantage is that it provides an ecological niche for a rapid re-establishment of the vegetation cover. Coir resembles natural soil in its capacity to absorb radiation. Coir mesh mattings are used extensively in erosion control works. Coir geotextile are also used as reinforcement and separator between sub grade and base course. This paper intend to review the available published case studies in this area along with the study of a case about 1.5km farm road constructed using coir geotextile in Kerala.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
7th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2013 Missouri University of Science and Technology, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
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Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Beena, K. S., "Case Studies on Application of Coir Geotextiles for Soil Stabilization" (2013). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 7.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/7icchge/session_06/7
Case Studies on Application of Coir Geotextiles for Soil Stabilization
Chicago, Illinois
Coir geotextiles (Coir Bhoovastra) is one of the non-traditional highly demanded and promising coir product with multi usages as eco-friendly, sustainable and substitutable product for many Civil Engineering applications especially in Geotechnical Engineering. Coir Geo-textiles is an emerging area of coir industry. Kerala, the major coir producing state in India is fast growing in the development and application of Coir Geotextile. Coir Geotextile development program is also intended to popularize the coir products as geotextile material in National & International level and to provide internationally accepted standardization for coir geotextile. The use of Coir geotextile is well established in areas of erosion control, blanket drains and as vertical drains. As the synthetic geotextile are non-biodegradable, the natural geosynthetics, especially coir geotextile are increasingly preferred. Experimental studies have proved that while cotton and jute degrade within six months, coir geotextile provide good support on slopes for about 5 years. It is resistant to saline water. Its greatest advantage is that it provides an ecological niche for a rapid re-establishment of the vegetation cover. Coir resembles natural soil in its capacity to absorb radiation. Coir mesh mattings are used extensively in erosion control works. Coir geotextile are also used as reinforcement and separator between sub grade and base course. This paper intend to review the available published case studies in this area along with the study of a case about 1.5km farm road constructed using coir geotextile in Kerala.
