Effect of Geotextiles on Engineering Properties of Soil

Abstract

Geotextiles play an important part in modern civil engineering and other related and unrelated applications. Geotextiles, a newly emerging field, offer great potential in varied areas of applications globally. There has been a phenomenal growth in their use world over for transportation application. Geotextiles are ideal material for infrastructural works such as roads, harbors and many others. This project aims at observing the effect of using geotextiles on some engineering properties of soil using different variations of non woven with main emphasis on performing proctor compaction test, triaxial test (UU) on clayey soil and observing and analyzing the result obtained for the different arrangements. The results of the project were positive as the geotextile enhanced the desirable properties of soil, i.e. unit weight at lesser water content and also better cohesion and internal angle of friction values.