Abstract
Recently, soil slopes reinforced by geo-cell, which is one of the three-dimensional geo-synthetics materials, has been gradually constructed in Japan. If we can use the local surplus soils as the materials into the cells, the geo-cell reinforced retaining wall is very useful and have many advantages for natural environments and construction costs. In this study, we constructed two test embankments reinforced by the geo-cell and measured displacements of them for 600 days. Moreover, we investigated the condition of geo-cell reinforced soil retaining walls actually constructed in the area of very heavy snowfall after the snow thaws. Our main purpose is examination of the possibility of valid utilization of local surplus soils as inside materials of geo-cells.
