SLOPE STABILITY BY SOIL NAILING WITH DIFFERENT FACING MATERIALS

In this research work slope stability is done by using well known topic of geotechnical engineering which is “Soil Nailing”. A lab based physical model is constructed for this research work. We deal with different types of facing materials for soil nailed slope which are Aluminium diamond shaped wire mesh, Galvanized iron wire mesh, Polyester geogrid, HDPE sandwiched triaxial geogrid and HDPE hexagonal mesh. To find out the strain produced in nails a flex sensor is attached on nail surface which show defection on loading whose values are taken by multimeter. Settlement and displacement of soil mass is easily visible from the perpex sheet as perpex sheet is used as two walls of the physical model. Bottle jack of capacity 5 ton is used for loading purposes.