Abstract
In recent years, there has been a development of new construction methods to satisfy the river environmental conservation. In this study, a new method called reinforced river dike using geotextile is proposed as a new application of soil reinforcement technique. By using this method, it is possible to reduce the construction period and cost and to use vegetation on the slope. A real-scale field construction and field monitoring, full-scale destruction experiment, model experiment and numerical simulations have been conducted to establish design and construction methods for the proposed reinforced river dike. A manual with respect to design and construction is proposed based on these studies. In this paper, the design manual is reported.
