• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.4 no.1 s.12
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• pp.65-75
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• 2004

Roadbed failure due to the natural disaster may bring out social and economic damage such as the loss of life and property, the consumption of time and cost for recovery, and the delay of logistics in railway In this study, the method using geosynthetic soilbag was applied to rehabilitation of the railway roadbed which was failed by disaster. The full scale tests with the simulated train loading were performed in order to evaluate the static and dynamic performance at the railway roadbed using geosynthetic soilbag. The results of these tests were compared with unreinforced and reinforced cases with geosynthetic soilbag, respectively The data gathered by various measurement devices from these full scale tests would be useful to evaluate and understand the roadbed with geosynthetic soilbag. In conclusion, geosynthetic soilbag was evaluated as a permanent restoration method to reinforce the roadbed of railway.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.579-593
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• 2017

Geosynthetic reinforced soil retaining walls can be employed as railway embankments to carry large static and dynamic train loads, but very few studies can be found in the literature that investigate their dynamic behavior under simulated wheel loading. A large-scale dynamic test on a reinforced soil railway embankment was therefore carried out. The model embankment was 1.65 meter high and designed to have a soilbag facing. It was reinforced with HDPE geogrid layers at a vertical spacing of 0.3 m and a length of 2 m. The dynamic test consisted of 1.2 million cycles of harmonic dynamic loading with three different load levels and four different exciting frequencies. Before the dynamic loading test, a static test was also carried out to understand the general behavior of the embankment behavior. The study indicated the importance of loading frequency on the dynamic response of reinforced soil railway embankment. It also showed that toe resistance played a significant role in the dynamic behavior of the embankment. Some limitations of the test were also discussed.