Performance Assessment of Geocell Reinforced Municipal Solid Waste Ash in Pavements

Abstract

Geocells is used as a soil reinforcement which is prepared with waste P.E.T. bottles with MSW fly ash as a infill material that is lying in low graded clay bed by various test .The hydraulic jack is generally used in order to provide a uniform loading on a rigid steel plate that is square in shape. The impact of width and height of geocell mattress as well as its variation along with the depth on total performance of arrangement in term of the defrayal and vertical stress acted upon the base inorganic soil layer. Test results indicated that tetrahedral arrangement showed 1.5 times more load on the soil and P.P.B. geocell showed 6.5 times more load on the base layer as compared to octahedral. Therefore, clarifying that octahedral arrangement was more suitable then the other. The quantitative results motivate the use of waste P.E.T bottles for clayey soil strength development which in turn help solving the disposal issue.