Location
Chicago, Illinois
Date
02 May 2013, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Abstract
A case history of repair works of road embankment failure at KM39, Route 68, Kuala Lumpur – Bentong Road in the state of Selangor, Malaysia and an observation on the condition of the site after 15 years and some tensile strength testing carried out on buried and exposed geogrid was presented in this paper. Due to heavy rainfall in 1995, about half of the road embankment which was located at the alluvial fan of an upslope stream valley was washout. For the reconstruction of the alignment, the existing half of the alignment was converted into a buffer zone with a row of gabion as a barrier to trap any fallen debris from the upslope stream valley. A geogrid reinforced embankment was constructed to provide an additional area for the new alignment of the road.
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.
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Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Jamaludin, Suhaimi and Jaafar, Kamal Bahrin, "Reconstruction of Road Embankment Failure Using Reinforced Geogrid: Revisiting the Site After 15 Years" (2013). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 63.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/7icchge/session03/63
Reconstruction of Road Embankment Failure Using Reinforced Geogrid: Revisiting the Site After 15 Years
Chicago, Illinois
A case history of repair works of road embankment failure at KM39, Route 68, Kuala Lumpur – Bentong Road in the state of Selangor, Malaysia and an observation on the condition of the site after 15 years and some tensile strength testing carried out on buried and exposed geogrid was presented in this paper. Due to heavy rainfall in 1995, about half of the road embankment which was located at the alluvial fan of an upslope stream valley was washout. For the reconstruction of the alignment, the existing half of the alignment was converted into a buffer zone with a row of gabion as a barrier to trap any fallen debris from the upslope stream valley. A geogrid reinforced embankment was constructed to provide an additional area for the new alignment of the road.
