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The book offers a systemic treatment of the analysis and design of substructures. The aim of the book has been to deal with a substurcture in its entirely, involving soil exploration, laboratory testing,analysis and structual design.
Reinforced soil is a composite material formed by the association of frictional soil and tension resistant elements in the form of sheets, strips, nets or mats of metal, synthetic fabrics or fibre reinforced plastics and arranged in the soil mass in such a way as to reduce or suppress the tensile strain which might develop under gravity and boundary forces. The range of applications of reinforced soil technique is unlimited. Jones (1985) identified several field ...