… facilities, such as buried pipes and culverts, requires an … of load-reduction techniques
are examined in this study, namely, the inclusion of geogrid reinforcement and the use of EPS …

… Superlight expanded polystyrene blocks are used as the … of earth pressure on buried culverts
are known to depend on … , to use more than one method to complement and/or confirm the …

… around the pipe culvert (but not underneath it) reduced its … EPS block densities and different
geosynthetic properties. … section, backfill soil, EPS block, and/or GL), vertical loading system, …

… role of EPS configuration on the load reduction on a buried … Figure 3-10 The finite element
mesh used in the buried culvert … the soil stiffness increases and/or conduit stiffness decreases. …

… such as road construction, buried pipe and culvert protection, … or gaps between EPS blocks
significantly reduce the design … increases in dead load and/or in construction time. For paved …

… EPS geofoam has been increasingly used as a highly … to protect deeply buried, large-span
concrete culverts. The study … is used for deeply buried and/or large-dimension structure, since …

… A typical road cross section with inclined and/or vertical side slopes may be as shown in
Fig… over buried utility corridors: a case study. Paper presented at 7th national geosynthetics …

… stabilization geosynthetics for unpaved road designs and/or … surface under the wheel load
to develop along alternate and … the expanded polystyrene (EPS) geofoam blocks conformed to …

… on the reduction of vertical pressure felt on the culvert surface. … If the EPS block experiences
more loading, plastic strain … , separate, and/or slide under the effect of loading can be used to …

… fill is to be built on a buried pipe, the imperfect ditch construction method can be employed
to reduce the earth load produced by high fill. The concept of imperfect ditch method is that …