A pilot test on a membraneless vacuum preloading method

• Main Authors: Sun, Liqiang, Guo, Wei, Chu, Jian, Nie, Wen, Ren, Yuxiao, Yan, Shuwang, Hou, Jinfang
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Vacuum preloading; Geosynthetics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83460; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42616
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A membraneless vacuum preloading method is proposed in this paper for soft soil improvement. The method offers several advantages over the conventional vacuum preloading in which membrane is used to create the airtight condition and sand blanket layer to distribute vacuum. To assess the effectivenes...