Effectiveness of the geotextile method against the liquefaction occurred at the West Tottori Pref. Earthquake

Abstract

As a background, we could see several damages occurred by the liquefaction on the earthquake of the West Tottori Pref on Oct. 6. 2000. However, in this situation, it was clear that areas geotextile method wasn't damaged so seriously.
So, we would explore two points: 1) the case study of situations on geotextile method using areas; 2) the procedure of geotextile method's effectiveness through the experiment to see intuitionaly from the view that the soil has granular nature.
Consequently, we could see that land constructions can obtain stabilities, compensating weak points of the soil that has less tensile resistances, by geotextile materials.