Description

Increasingly, engineers are challenged to realise infrastructural works with high demands on the use of space. Often, when redesigning infrastructure, there is no room at all to create a natural embankment. Sheet piles, tubular piles and L-walls are traditional solutions for turning soil. Since the mid-1980s, systems have been available in the Netherlands where retaining walls in soil are realised using only plastic reinforcement. These reinforced soil constructions are increasingly used as an economical and sustainable alternative to steel and concrete. The reinforced soil construction of structure (KW) 1600 in the project N381: section "Venekoten - Drentse grens" is a textbook example of how a complex design is realised.

Location

Fac. Citg, Lecture Hall F

TU Delft

Organiser

Construction and Hydraulic Engineering

The Society 'Practical Study

Name and contact details for information

Yorick Ligthart Chairman Practical Study Society

Apply via

Yorick Ligthart

voorzitter-ps@tudelft.nl