Soil reinforcement is defined as a technique to improve the engineering characteristics of
soil. In this way, using natural fibers to reinforce soil is an old and ancient idea …

Expansive clays are present in many places across the world. They have an intrinsic volume
change that causes fractures, differential settlements, heaves, and damage to the overlaying …

Basalt fiber has unique advantages in the reinforcement of slopes and foundation. In this
study, triaxial shear tests under undrained unconsolidated conditions, digital image …

Volume change of expansive soils is a challenging issue, which affects various engineering
structures all over the world. Consequently, we need environmentally-friendly and cost …

The reinforcement and stabilization of loess soil are duscussed by using fibers as the
reinforcement and cement as the stabilization materials. To study the strength characteristics …

The generation of the disposal and recycling of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) has been
significantly grown in recent years. The amount of landfill available to contain this material …

The use of discrete fibers in reinforcing soils is of interest to the geotechnical engineering
community. Two limitations exist in experimental studies involving fiber-reinforced clays …

The common availability of recycled textile from clothing represents an untapped resource
which can be used as soil reinforcement. Recent efforts to use fibers as soil reinforcement …

To meet construction demands, reinforcement and stabilization methods have been widely
used to improve properties and mechanical behavior of clays. Although cement stabilization …

Red clay is a soft soil with low shear strength and high compressibility. Fiber reinforcement
is often adopted to improve the mechanical properties of red clay to be used in road …